A Song About A Chicken chords by Bo Burnham

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: E MajorE

🎸 Intro:

| E MajorE F# minorF#m | C# minorC#m G#m7G#m7 | E MajorE F# minorF#m | C# minorC#m G#m7G#m7 |
| E MajorE F# minorF#m | C# minorC#m G#m7G#m7 | E MajorE F# minorF#m | C# minorC#m G#m7G#m7 |
| A augmentedA    | BB     | C# minorC#m BB | BB  G#7G#7 | A augmentedA    |
| A augmentedA    | BB     | C# minorC#m BB | BB  G#7G#7 | A augmentedA    |
| A augmentedA    | A minorAm    |



🎸 Verse 1:
  E MajorE       F# minorF#m     C# minorC#m    G#m7G#m7
The chicken wakes up, like she does every morning
E MajorE    F# minorF#m      C# minorC#m    G#m7G#m7
 To the sounds of her husband's screams
E MajorE     F# minorF#m     C# minorC#m    G#m7G#m7
Sat in the dark on the egg she is warming
E MajorE  F# minorF#m    C# minorC#m   G#m7G#m7
 She closes her eyes and dreams of
A augmentedA           BB
Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist
C# minorC#m BB  G#7G#7 A augmentedA
Anything but this
    A augmentedA            BB
I mean, shе likes her life as a mothеr and wife
  C# minorC#m  BB  G#7G#7 A augmentedA
But is that all she is?
   A augmentedA       A minorAm
She stares out the window

🎸 Verse 2:
  EMaj7Emaj7   F# minorF#m     C# minorC#m    G#m7G#m7
The very next morning, the chicken decides to
EMaj7Emaj7   F# minorF#m     C#m7C#m7   G#m7G#m7
Make her escape, get a taste of freedom
  EMaj7Emaj7    F# minorF#m      C#m7C#m7      G#m7G#m7
She runs out the coop that her life's been confined to
EMaj7Emaj7  F# minorF#m         C#m7C#m7 G#m7G#m7
Suddenly sees the thing she’s only dreamed of
A augmentedA           BB
Just up ahead, gophers run through a meadow
C# minorC#m  BB   G#7G#7  A augmentedA
 Deer graze, birds sing
  A augmentedA            BB
Her future is waiting, right there for the taking
C# minorC#m   BB  G#7G#7 A augmentedA
 There's just one thing
  A augmentedA      A minorAm       E MajorE
The chicken must first cross the road
  G#7G#7
The road

🎸 Bridge:
C# minorC#m    BB          A augmentedA
 A augmentedA sea of trees and green and moss
       F# minorF#m   E MajorE     G#7G#7  C# minorC#m
Waiting just across the road, the road
 BB        A augmentedA           A minorAm
A augmentedA life of brighter days, a width of road away


🎸 Verse 3:
  E MajorE     F# minorF#m     C# minorC#m    G#m7G#m7
The road is gigantic, the chicken is little
E MajorE     F# minorF#m       C# minorC#m     G#m7G#m7
She moves ahead left-right-left, right-left-right
E MajorE     F# minorF#m     C# minorC#m     G#m7G#m7
All of the sudden she stops in the middle
E MajorE     F# minorF#m    C# minorC#m   G#m7G#m7
Frozen in place by a pair of headlights
   A augmentedA          BB
It's anyone's guess what then happened next
  C# minorC#m  BB   G#7G#7 A augmentedA
But most think she died
  A augmentedA           BB
But I think we ought to believe that she got to
C# minorC#m BB G#7G#7 A augmentedA
 The other  side
  A augmentedA       A minorAm
So that's why she did it