The Chicken

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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The chicken wakes up like she does   every morning
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 To the sounds   of her husband's screams
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Sat in the dark on the eggs   she is warming
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 She closes her eyes   and dreams of
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Walking to Memphis, becoming a dentist
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Anything but this
I mean,
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she likes her life as a mother and wife
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But is that all she is?
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She stares out the window

[Verse 2]
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The very next morning,
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the chicken decides to
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Makе her escape,
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gеt a taste   of freedom
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She runs out the coop that her life’s   been confined to
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Suddenly sees the thing she's only dreamed of
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Just up ahead,
        B
gophers run through a meadow
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   Deer graze, birds sing
Her future is waiting,
      B
right there for the taking
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   There's just one thing
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The chicken must first cross the road
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The   road

[Bridge]
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   A sea of trees and green and moss Waiting just across
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the road, the  road
  B
A life of brighter days,
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 a width of road away

[Verse 3]
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The road is gigantic,
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the chicken is little
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She moves ahead leftrightleft,
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   rightleftright
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All of a sudden,
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she stops   in the middle
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Frozen in place by a pair   of headlights
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It’s anyone's guess what then happened next
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But   most think she died
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But I think we ought to believe that she got to
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   The other side

[Outro]
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So that's why she did it
Goodbye