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Bo Burnham

Version
studio
published by
dropobozo
Tone
A-
A+
Slide
A -> La
Video
Chords
	 
[Intro]
N.C.
Hi, so I'm gonna do one more song.
N.C.
I know the last song seemed like it should have been the last song, but this is actually the last song.
N.C.
I just wanna say thank you for watching if you watched this. I appreciate it. I really do.
And thank you, yeah. I hope you enjoyed it.
N.C.
This is a song about a chicken.
[Instrumental]
E F#sus2 C#m G#7 (x4)

A6 B6 C#m7 Badd9 G#7 (x2)

A6 Am

[Verse]
E F#m C#m G#m7/D#
The chicken wakes up like she does every morning
E F#m C#m G#m7/D#
To the sounds of her husband's screams
E F#m C#m G#m7/D#
Sat in the dark on the eggs she is warming
E F#m C#m G#m7/D#
She closes her eyes and dreams of
A6 B6
Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist
C#m Badd9 G#7 A6
Anything but this
B6
I mean, shе likes her life as a mothеr and wife
C#m Badd9 G#7 A6
But is that all she is?
Am
She stares out the window
[Verse]
Emaj7 F#m9 C#m Emaj9/G#
The very next morning, the chicken decides to
Emaj7 F#m9 C#m7 Emaj9/G#
Make her escape, get a taste of freedom
Emaj7 F#m9 C#m7 Emaj9/G#
She runs out the coop that her life's been confined to
Emaj7 F#m9 C#m7 Emaj9/G#
Suddenly sees the things she’s only dreamed of
A6 B6
Just up ahead, gophers run through a meadow
C#m Badd9 G#7 A6
Deer graze, birds sing
B6
Her future is waiting right there for the taking
[Bridge]
C#m Badd9 G#7 A6 Am E
There's just one thing, the chicken must first cross the road
G#7 C#m
The road
[Verse]
Badd4 Aadd#11
A sea of trees and green and moss
F#m Eadd9 G#7 C#m
Waiting just across the road, the road
B Aadd9 Am
A life of brighter days, a width of road away
E F#m9 C#m G#m7/D#
The road is gigantic, the chicken is little
E F#m9 C#m G#m7/D#
She moves ahead, left, right, left, right, left, right
E F#m9 C#m G#m7/D#
All of the sudden she stops in the middle
E F#m9 C#m G#m7/D#
Frozen in place by a pair of headlights
A6 B6
It's anyone's guess what then happened next
C#m Badd9 G#7 A6
But most think she died
B6 C#m Badd9 G#7 A6
But I think we ought to believe that she got to the other side
Am
So that's why she did it
Sad