Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon-Frank Stokes

[ti:Chicken You Can Roost Behind The Moon] [ar:Frank Stokes] [al:Creator Of The Memphis Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon - Frank Stokes [00:08.35]Boy did you ever do anything like stealin chickens [00:10.45] [00:23.05]Oh now it chicken chicken oh chicken [00:25.19] [00:26.04]You may go up in a balloon [00:28.44] [00:29.42]Chicken chicken [00:31.07] [00:31.92]You may hide moon doggone you now [00:35.16]Chicken [00:36.49] [00:37.61]Her never let a fowl would be [00:39.79] [00:40.49]Ten thousand dollar warrant for the fowl on earth [00:43.35]He don't roost too high for me [00:45.64] [00:46.28]I got to thinking about chicken late the other night [00:48.15] [00:49.04]Man I couldn't a hardly rest [00:51.51] [00:52.39]I jumped out the bed grabbed up my old shoes [00:54.93]Thought of where some chicken was at [00:57.13] [00:58.04]I grabbed big buffcoat stuck own my arm [01:00.60] [01:01.19]Some I never let fall [01:03.10] [01:04.06]I don't think robbed your hener [01:05.50] [01:06.02]Till I get your roost [01:07.06]Poor chicken and all [01:09.46]Ah now it's chicken oh chicken [01:11.49] [01:12.10]Ah you may go up in a balloon doggone ya [01:15.20] [01:15.86]Chicken ah you may hide moon doggone now [01:21.09]Chicken [01:22.57] [01:23.93]Ah never let a fowl would be [01:26.85]Ten thousand dollar warrant for the fowl on earth [01:29.72]He don't roost too high for me [01:32.43]Ah that chicken made me awful mad the other night man [01:35.42]That's some I didn't like to take [01:37.77] [01:38.30]I grabbed my little haversack and down 'cross my back [01:40.99]Grabbed the chicken right by the neck [01:43.14] [01:44.13]Said I turned around quick as I could [01:47.26]A chicken hauled away don't clare [01:49.26] [01:49.90]I won't steal meat and bread outta cook's pot [01:52.51]I steal a chicken from anywhere [01:55.19]Ah now it's chicken now chicken [01:57.98] [01:58.75]Go up in a balloon doggone ya [02:01.48]Chicken ah you may hide the moon [02:06.47]Chicken I never let a fowl be [02:12.40]A ten thousand dollar warrant for the fowl on earth [02:15.13]He don't roost too high for me [02:17.26] [02:17.83]Ah that police rest me last friday night [02:20.00] [02:20.84]You couldn't think of what's it about [02:22.94] [02:23.79]I'm going down the alley where I lived at [02:25.84] [02:26.49]A lot of chicken tied in my house [02:29.14]Say you may carry me to the pen tentiary wall [02:32.17]I'll go to work out my time [02:34.65]And just as quick you put me on the ln track [02:37.17]I'll have chickens on my mind [02:39.81]That make me sad chicken oh chicken [02:43.22]You may go up in a balloon doggone ya [02:46.00]Chicken you may hide the moon [02:51.54]Now chicken I never let a fowl would be [02:56.94]Ten thousand dollar warrant for the fowl on earth [02:59.70]He don't roost too high for me