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******************* CHICKEN ON THE GROUND *******************

written and performed by Billy Joe Shaver.



Verse 1:
      G                                       C/G
	There's an old familiar hillside overlooking Emhouse,Texas
                 G                                   D
	Where i left some childhood memories layin' round
              G                              C/G
	I can almost hear the singing,i can still remember praying
                G                                D              G
	At them old campground meetings eatin' chicken on the ground


Chorus:
      G            D                        G
	With them hallelujahs ringin',everybody shoutin',singin'
                                                               D
	Give me that old time religion,Jesus loves me,this i know
              G                               C/G
	When life was finger-lickin' good and God lived in our neighborhood
                G                                D              C/G
	At them old campground meetin's eatin' chicken on the ground


Verse 2:
      G                                       C/G
	I can still remember feelin' all that happiness inside me
                 G                                   D
	When i praised the Lord and laid my burdens down
                   G                              C/G
	But that chicken must have tasted better than the word of God
                         G                              D               G
	'Cause it went slippin' through my fingers and rollin' on the ground


Chorus.


Verse 3:
      G                             C/G
	I reckon everyone of us can call back or remember
	          G                                 D
	When the taste and smell of youth was all around
               G                         C/G
	And i reckon in our own way everyone of us is payin' now
             G                                   D            G
	For eatin' chicken  and not listenin' to old Parson Brown


Chorus (x3).












Perret Charles-Amir : perret@math.univ-mlv.fr
                      http://soleil.univ-mlv.fr/~perret/country.html