Rooster Crowing

Intro: G C7 G7 C7 G D7 [Verso 1] G7 Rooster crow in the morning, at 4 am, G The crack of dawn, he’s crowing again G7 Oh, I get all excited with all the hateful things going on in my head C G If I had my 22, I’d shoot him in the pen C7 G7 Looks like I’m having, looks like I’m having chicken at suppertime D7 Yeah, my wife keeps telling me, honey you need to relax a little bit C7 G7 G D7 I tell her, but that fricken chicken was way out of line [Verso 2] G7 So, every day I see him, that Road Island red G Just pecking everywhere, all over my garden bed G7 I say to myself, holy smokes, this s has got to end G I’m wishing and thinking that fricken chicken was dead C7 G7 Into the crockpot, into the boiling stew D7 Yeah, I know, I know, sometimes I gotta lay back but C7 C G7 G D7 what’s a man, without any sleep, supposed to do? Instrumental: G7 G G7 G G7 C7 G7 D7 C7 G7 D7 [Verso 3] G7 You know that bird used to sing in the morning G Every day at 4 am G7 Now I wake up from a deep, deep sleep, G A very happy man C7 Guess what I’m having for breakfast, yeah, G7 I’m having me some chicken wings D7 But as I sit there enjoying my morning meal, I say to myself C7 G7 Damn, I sure miss the way this bird used to sing