Under The Chicken Tree
Words by Irving Jones
Key: F
Music by Kerry Mills
1908

File Created 04/08/2017
File Updated 09/14/2022

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Verse:

F                  F7
I had a dream last night.
   Bb               G7
It almost turned me white
  C                     C7                 F     C7
I dreamed that hens and roosters growed on trees.

            F                 F7
I dreamed I owned a great big ranch
       Bb             G7
And on every hen-tree branch,
    C                C7              F     BbF
The eggs was just as thick as bumble bees.

  Dm          A7      Dm
I stepped out  in the yard
              A7         Dm
And shook one tree right hard,
      G7                                  C    CdimC7
And a bout one hundred fowl come tumblin' down.

        F                F7
Just as soon as they had died,
  Bb               G7
I had them quickly fried
         C            C7               F     BbF
With the gravy oozing out all nice and brown.

Chorus:

       F                 F7
It was under the chicken tree,
Bb                    G7
Under that big fricas see.
C7
Eggs was droppin' from ev'ry blossom
  F
I lost all my taste for the meat they call possum.

F     F     F            F7
Cows, hogs, every little thing
Bb                                G7
Looked like feathers, chicken and wings
F
Eggs was droppin'.
F         D7
Wings was floppin',
G7        C7      F    BbF
Under the chicken tree.

Chorus repeat:

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