Chicken Song
written by Roger Alan Wade and Dan Bowen
from the album "All Likkered Up"
tabbed 10/1/05


CAPO II


INTRO: G

       C                     D               G
Yeah a chicken wakes up to a new world every day
         C                   D              G
Far as a chicken's concerned everything's a-okay
     C                         D                            G             D 
Ah a chicken don't worry 'bout nothin' but cluckin' and the price of eggs today
N/C                             D
And don't worry much about that
                C                   D
'Cause what the farmer don't snatch before she can hatch
       G                      
Ah the weasle gonna steal 'em anyway
     G                     D               G
Ah a chicken wakes up to a new world every day

C                         D
You reckon a chicken ever finds herself frettin' 
      G
About gettin' old or ugly or fat?
         C                                 D
I know a chicken's kinda dim but I'm goin' out on a limb
          G
I'd say a chicken's smarter'n that
       C                          D
Hell a chicken's just happy bein' one of them chickens
           G
That ain't one of them chickens in every pot
           C                                                                      D
You know a chicken knows that half of bein' happy's just bein' happy with what ya got
              C                                                D
And the other half of bein' happy's just bein' happy no matter what
       C              D
People life is short, time's a-tickin
             G/
If you wanna live like a king gotta think like a chicken

         C                     D             G
Oh and a chicken wakes up to a new world everyday
         C                   D             G
Far as a chicken's concerned everything's a-okay
     C                         D                            G             D
Ah a chicken don't worry 'bout nothin' but cluckin' and the price of eggs today
N/C                                                         D
That's eggs, a-g-g-g-g-g-s, and don't worry much about that
                C                   D
'Cause what the farmer don't snatch before she can hatch
       G                      
Ah the weasle gonna steal 'em anyway
     G                     D                     G
Ah a chicken wakes up to a whole new world every day

Em                     C
Poor old chicken don't get no respect
               G                                                         D       
They're either swipin' her eggs or fryin' her legs or tryin' to ring her neck
       C
Well a chicken understands her position and knows in this current condition

It ain't gonna change so she made a decision to roost every evenin' 
                                        D
In the rusted out chassis of a beat up Chevrolet
         C            D               G
And just wake up to a new world every day, yodel-ay

     C                     D                     G
Oh a chicken wakes up to a whole new world every day
         C                   D              G
Far as a chicken's concerned everything's a-okay
      C                        D                            G             D
Ah a chicken don't worry 'bout nothin' but cluckin' and the price of eggs today
N/C                             D
And don't worry much about that
                C                   D
'Cause what the farmer don't snatch before she can hatch
         G
Hell the weasle gonna steal 'em anyway
  G                     D
A chicken wakes up to a new world
  C                     D
A chicken wakes up to a new world
     G                     D                    G    C
Ah a chicken buck-wakes up to a new world every day
     G                     D                     G    C
Oh a chicken wakes up to a whole new world every day, alright
      G                     D                     G
Hey a chicken wakes up to a whole new world every day