The Chicken Dance (aka Dance Little Bird and also Funky Chicken)

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|    Do you wanna feel | good, wanna laugh an n  d play? (let's laugh an n  d |
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| play.)   Wanna have some | fun, throw your blues a a way? (your blues a a |
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| wa ay)    Are you feelin' | sad? Got a problem? - Here's the cure (w e go t the |
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| cure.)   D  o the chicken | dance; make you happy fo or sure, reach out your |
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| arms and swing your pa ar t   |   ner. Make like a bird and try to |
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| fly.  Come on out | there you hens and roo |
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sters. Just hook your arms now, and don't be | shy.   

Hey you're in the swing. You're cluckin' like a bird. (Pluck, pluck, pluck, pluck.)
You're flappin' your wings. Don't you feel absurd. (No, no, no, no.)
It's a chicken dance, like a rooster and a hen. (Ya, ya, ya, ya.)
Flappy chicken dance; let's do it again.

Relax and let the music move you. Let all your inhibitions go.
Just watch your partner whirl around you.
We're havin' fun now; I told you so.

Now you're flappin' like a bird and you're wigglin' too. (I like that move.)
You're without a care. It's a dance for you. (Just made for you.)
Keep doin' what you do. Don't you cop out now. (Don't cop out now.)
Gets better as you dance; Catch your breath somehow.

Reach out your arms and swing your partner.
Make like a bird and try to fly.
Come on out there you hens and roosters.
Just hook your arms now, and don't be shy.

Now we're almost through, really flying high (bye, bye, bye, bye.)
All you chickens and birds, time to say goodbye (to say goodbye.)
Goin' back to the nest, but the flyin' was fun (oh it was fun.)
Chicken dance is the best, but the dance is done.

Reach out your arms and swing your partner.
Make like a bird and try to fly.
Come on out there you hens and roosters.
Just hook your arms now, and don't be shy.

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From June 30, 2006