| 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