Crow Black Chicken

Yonder Mountain String Band

Key of E · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

        E           A
Well, I went on the mountain
         E             B7
And gave my horn a blow
        E            A
Thought I heard some pretty gal say
        B7           E
"Yonder come my beau"

Verse 2

E    A                 E             A
Crow black chicken and crow for a day
E          A           B7
Crow black chicken and fly away
E    A             E              A
Crow black chicken and crow for a day
        B7           E
Honey I like chicken pie

Verse 3

          E                      A
Well, the hardest work that ever I done
   E                  B7
Is plowin' a field of rye
    E                 A
The easiest work that ever I done
           B7      E
Was eatin' chicken pie

Verse 4

E                A
Chicken crow for midnight
    E                     B7
And chicken crow for a day
E             A
Along come an owl, Lord, have mercy
    B7               E
And stole my chicken away

Verse 5

E
Me and my baby sugar mama built an a-frame
A
House ten stories high
             E                A
And in every single story and in every single room
   B7                 E
We was eating chicken pie

Verse 6

E    A                 E             A
Crow black chicken and crow for a day
E          A           B7
Crow black chicken and fly away
E    A             E              A
Crow black chicken and crow for a day
        B7           E
Honey I like chicken pie