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The Chicken And The Hawk - Big Joe Turner Chords

Chords: C, F, G

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Genre: blues, rock and roll, rhythm and blues


The Chicken And The Hawk – Big Joe Turner 1:48

(Leiber & Stoller)

Big Joe Turner, vocal; Wilbur DeParis, trombone; Haywood Henry, baritone sax;

Harry Van Walls, piano; Connie Kay, drums, remainder unknown.

Recorded in New York, November 3, 1955

Produced by Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler

[Verse 1]
C
Well, a curly headed chicken fell in love with a chicken hawk
F
Well, a curly headed chicken fell in love with a chicken hawk
G F C
Fell head over heels for that hawk's sweet talk.

[Verse 2]
C
She said “Take me up hawky, take me up in the sky.
F
She said “Take me up hawky, take me up in the sky.
G F C
I'm just a little bitty chicken and I don't know how to fly.”

[Chorus]
C
He said “Up, up, and away, we gohn fly all day
F C
Up, up, and away, we gohn fly all day
G F C
Up, up, up, up, and away.”

[Verse 3]
C
He met a bald headed eagle flying up there in the blue
F
He met a bald headed eagle flying up there in the blue
G F C
Well the eagle told the hawk, “I'm gonna steal that chicken from you.”

[Verse 4]
C
Well the hawk starts flying like a V8 single jet
F
Well the hawk starts flying like a V8 single jet
G F C
He said “Cool down chicken, the eagle ain't got us yet.”

[Chorus]
C
He said “Up, up, and away, we gohn fly all day
F C
Up, up, and away, we gohn fly all day
G F C
Up, up, up, up, and away.”

[Saxophone Solo]

[Verse 5]

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