Bo Burnham – A Song About A Chicken Chords on Piano & Ukulele

[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
The chicken wakes up,
         C#m        G#m7
like she does every morning
E       F#m
 To the sounds of
     C#m       G#m7
 her husband's screams
E          F#m         C#m
Sat in the dark on the egg
       G#m7
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
I mean, shе likes her life
     B
as a mothеr and wife
    C#m    B    G#7  A
But is that all she  is?
     A             Am
She stares out the window

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[Verse 2]
    Emaj7     F#m
The very next morning,
    C#m       G#m7
the chicken decides to
Emaj7      F#m
Make her escape,
      C#m7     G#m7
get a taste of freedom
    Emaj7        F#m
She runs out the coop that
    C#m7           G#m7
her life's been confined to
Emaj7    F#m
Suddenly sees the thing
      C#m7  G#m7
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
Her future is waiting,
      B
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

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[Bridge]
C#m       B                   A
 A sea of trees and green and moss
              F#m      E
Waiting just across the road,
   G#7   C#m
the road
  B                A
A life of brighter days,
                 Am
a width of road away

[Verse 3]
    E         F#m
The road is gigantic,
    C#m        G#m7
the chicken is little
E          F#m             C#m
She moves ahead left-right-left,
      G#m7
right-left-right
E          F#m         C#m
All of the sudden she stops
       G#m7
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