The Chicken Chords by Bo Burnham

[Intro]
| C  Dm   | Am  Em7   | x4
| F       | G         | 
| Am  G   | G    E7   | 
| F       |           |
| F       | G         | 
| Am  G   | G    E7   | 
| F       |           |
| F       | Fm        |
 
 
[Verse 1]
    C             Dm   
The chicken wakes up, 
         Am         Em7 
like she does every morning
C       Dm            Am        Em7
 To the sounds of her husband's screams
C          Dm          Am 
Sat in the dark on the egg 
       Em7
she is warming
C    Dm         Am       Em7
 She closes her eyes and dreams of
F                     G
Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist
Am   G   E7   F
Anything but  this
        F                
I mean, shе likes her life 
     G
as a mothеr and wife
    Am     G    E7   F
But is that all she  is?
     F             Fm
She stares out the window
 
 
[Verse 2]
    Cmaj7     Dm      
The very next morning, 
    Am        Em7 
the chicken decides to
Cmaj7      Dm          Am7  
Make her escape, get a taste 
   Em7
of freedom
    Cmaj7        Dm       
She runs out the coop that 
    Am7            Em7
her life's been confined to
Cmaj7    Dm            
Suddenly sees the thing 
      Am7   Em7
she’s only  dreamed of
F                      G
Just up ahead, gophers run 

through a meadow
Am    G      E7    F
 Deer graze, birds sing
    F                
Her future is waiting, 
      G
right there for the taking
Am      G    E7  F
 There's just one  thing
    F            Fm              C
The chicken must first cross the road
   E7
The road
 
 
[Bridge]

Am        G                   F
 A sea of trees and green and moss
              Dm       C     
Waiting just across the road, 
   E7    Am
the road
  G                F    
A life of brighter days, 
                 Fm
a width of road away
 
 
[Verse 3]
    C         Dm     
The road is gigantic, 
    Am         Em7
the chicken is little
C          Dm              Am   
She moves ahead left-right-left, 
      Em7
right-left-right
C          Dm          Am  
All of the sudden she stops 
       Em7
in the middle
C         Dm         Am  
Frozen in place by a pair 
   Em7
of headlights
     F                   G
It's anyone's guess what then 

happened next
   Am    G     E7   F
But most think she  died
    F                     G
But I think we ought to believe 

that she got to
Am   G  E7   F
 The other   side
   F              Fm
So that's why she did it

FIVE YEARS CHORDS - Bo Burnham

ℹ️ About This Song

The track was Produced by Bo Burnham for his album Inside. The key of the track is E major, to simplify the chords use a Capo on the 4th fret.

Chords Info

• Tuning: Standard ( E A D G B E )
• Key: E
• Capo:  4th fret
• Chords: C, Cmaj7, Dm, Em7, E7, F, Fm, G, Am, Am7
• Strumming: DU DU DU DU 
  • D = Down Stroke, U = Up Stroke, N.C = No Chords, * = Single Stroke

Guitar Chords	Ukulele Chords
C – x32010 Cmaj7 – x32000 Dm – xx0231 Em7 – 020000 E7 – 020100 F – 133211 Fm – 133111 G – 320003 Am – x02210 Am7 – x02010	C – 0003 Cmaj7 – 0002 Dm – 2210 Em7 – 0202 E7 – 1202 F – 2010 Fm – 1013 G – 0232 Am – 2000 Am7 – 0000

Track Info

• Song: The Chicken
• Artist: Bo Burnham
• Produced by Bo Burnham
• Album: Inside (Deluxe) 2022
• Release Date: June 3, 2022

[Intro, spoken]

Hi, so I’m gonna do one more song, uh
I know the last song seemed
like it should’ve been the last song,
but this is actually the last song
I just wanna say, thank you for watching
if you watched this, I appreciate it,
I really do and, uh, thank you, yeah.
I hope you enjoyed it
This is a song about a… chicken

🎸

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