The Magnetic Fields — A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
GD
Eligible, not too stupid,
FC
intelligible and cute as Cupid,
GD
knowledgeable, but not always right,
FC
salvageable and free for the night.
G
Well my heart's running round
C
like a chicken with its head cut off,
D
all around the barnyard
CG
falling in and out of love.
CDG
The poor thing's blind as a bat
C
getting up, falling down, getting up.
DC
Who'd fall in love with a chicken
G
with its head cut off?
(Whoa, Nellie)
GD
My wife doesn't understand me.
FC
Many dozens hope to land me.
GD
I'm for free love, and I'm in free fall.
FC
This could be love or nothing at all.
G
Well my heart's running round
C
like a chicken with its head cut off,
D
all around the barnyard
CG
falling in and out of love.
CDG
The poor thing's blind as a bat
C
getting up, falling down, getting up.
DC
Who'd fall in love with a chicken
G
with its head cut off?
C
We don't have to be stars
D
exploding in the night
GEm
or electric eels under the covers.
C
We don't have to be
DG
anything quite so unreal
Em
Let's just be lovers.
G
Well my heart's running round
C
like a chicken with its head cut off,
D
all around the barnyard
CG
falling in and out of love.
CDG
The poor thing's blind as a bat
C
getting up, falling down, getting up.
DC
Who'd fall in love with a chicken
G
with its head cut off?
G
(It ain't pretty)