Bo Burnham – The Chicken (Guitar)

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Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/0k7tFat3QoVTtvMlwAgPaT?si=8d4ebaeae25440f7 Apple Music link: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-chicken/1626102932?i=1626103712 [Intro] | E F#m | C#m G#m7 | E F#m | C#m G#m7 | | E F#m | C#m G#m7 | E F#m | C#m G#m7 | | A | B | C#m B | B G#7 | A | | A | B | C#m B | B G#7 | A | | A | Am | [Verse 1]
    E             F#m          C#m        G#m7
The chicken wakes up, like she does every morning

E       F#m           C#m       G#m7
 To the sounds of her husband's screams

E          F#m         C#m        G#m7
Sat in the dark on the egg she is warming

E    F#m        C#m      G#m7
 She closes her eyes and dreams of

A                     B
Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist

C#m  B   G#7  A
Anything but  this

        A                       B
I mean, shе likes her life as a mothеr and wife

    C#m    B    G#7  A
But is that all she  is?

     A             Am
She stares out the window
[Verse 2]
    Emaj7     F#m          C#m       G#m7
The very next morning, the chicken decides to

Emaj7      F#m         C#m7     G#m7
Make her escape, get a taste of freedom

    Emaj7        F#m           C#m7           G#m7
She runs out the coop that her life's been confined to

Emaj7    F#m                  C#m7  G#m7
Suddenly sees the thing she’s only  dreamed of

A                      B
Just up ahead, gophers run through a meadow

C#m   B      G#7   A
 Deer graze, birds sing

    A                        B
Her future is waiting, right there for the taking

C#m      B    G#7  A
 There's just one  thing

    A            Am              E
The chicken must first cross the road

   G#7
The road
[Bridge]
C#m       B                   A
 A sea of trees and green and moss

              F#m      E         G#7   C#m
Waiting just across the road, the road

  B                A                      Am
A life of brighter days, a width of road away
[Verse 3]
    E         F#m         C#m        G#m7
The road is gigantic, the chicken is little

E          F#m             C#m         G#m7
She moves ahead left-right-left, right-left-right

E          F#m         C#m         G#m7
All of the sudden she stops in the middle

E         F#m        C#m     G#m7
Frozen in place by a pair of headlights

     A                   B
It's anyone's guess what then happened next

   C#m   B     G#7  A
But most think she  died

    A                     B
But I think we ought to believe that she got to

C#m  B  G#7  A
 The other   side

   A              Am
So that's why she did it