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Jim Dixon Songs about chickens (161* d) Lyr Add: THE CHICKEN AND THE HAWK (from Joe Turner 22 Mar 17

THE CHICKEN AND THE HAWK (UP, UP, AND AWAY)
Written by Leiber & Stoller.
As recorded by Joe Turner and His Blues Kings, 1955.

1. Well, a curly-head chicken fell in love with a chicken hawk, (2x)
Fell head over heels for that hawk's sweet talk.

2. [She] said: "Take me up, Hawky; take me up in the sky. (2x)
[I'm] just a little bitty chicken and I don't now how to fly."

CHORUS: [He said] up, up, and away.
We gon' fly all day.
Up, up, and away.
We gon' fly all day.
Up, up, up, up, and away.

3. He met a bald-headed eagle flyin' up there in the blue. (2x)
Well, the eagle told the hawk: "I'm gonna steal that chicken from you."

4. Well, the hawk started flyin' like a P-8 single jet. (2x)
He said: "Cool down, chicken; the eagle ain't got us yet." CHORUS

5. "Well, you asked him for the sun; did you ask him for the moon?" (2x)
Said: "Cool down, baby; we're gonna be there soon." CHORUS

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