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From: BelugaDave@aol.com
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:27:38 EDT
Subject: Given back what I take.

	Song: Chicken Truck							
								Artist: John 
Anderson									
						Album: John Anderson/ 
Greatest Hit's									
		Writer: John Anderson/ Ervan Parker/ Monroe Fields, 1984 
Warner Records									
										
			Intro:   G C D G					
										
										
										
		Verse 1								
										
	(G) Well it was mornin when i left Ala(C)bama,				
					(D) must have been around in Mid (G) 
July.										
(G) Got behind a chicken truck from (C) Georgia,				
					(D) and the feathers were a flyin 
like snow out of the (G) sky.						(G) 
Couldn't get up the speed enough to (C) pass him,				
			(D) and a funny smell was a gettin close to (G) me.	
										
										
							Chorus:			
										
						(G) Chicken truck, chicken 
truck behind it IM stuck,							
	(C) Chicken truck, chicken truck it's just my luck			
						(D) Chicken truck on Highway 
sixty five.									
		(G) Well the hen's are a sqaukin and the roosters are a 
crowin						(C) Slowin me down when I 
need to get goin								
		(G) Chicken truck, on highway sixty five.			
										
										
								Verse 2		
										
							(G) He slowed down 
and I tried to drive around (C) him,						
	(D) on a big long hill just south of Tenne(G) see			
						(G)He had a box of Colonel 
Sanders on his (C) dashboard,						(D) 
and he was eatin fried chicken and throwin his bones on (G) me.			
										
										
	Chorus: Two times and out.						
										
										
								John Anderson 
and Don Williams Rule!!!!!   Im out.						
		From: Dave Armstrong.