Chords for RUFUS THOMAS - "Breakdown' & 'Funky Chicken' LIVE @ WATTSTAX 1973

_ _ _ _ _ _ Ladies and gentlemen, _ let's meet and greet _ _ Mr.
Rufus Thomas! _
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_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [N] _ Hey!
_ _ _ _ Hey! _ _
_ _ _ Hey!
Can _ _ _ I ask you something?
_ _ I said can I ask you something? _ _ _ _
Ain't I clean? _ _ _ _ _ _
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Hey fella!
Thank you. _ _ _
Y'all ready for it? _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ Honey, baby, _ _ I've been [B] told.
You [D]
know how to shake a butter boat. _ _
I can see _ for myself
[Dm] _
_ if you've got _ any butter left.
_ [G] Break down [D] to the left, break it down to the right.
_ Break it down to the one you're gonna love tonight.
_ Break down [A] children, _
[D] break them down y'all.
Break down children, _ break them down.
Listen, _ you got it going, [Dm] my my my.
_ Just look [D] around, grab your guy. _ _
Stop where you [A] are, [D] let your big head [Dm] rock. _
[D] Show him how you're looking,
break _ down for me, _ [C] break [D] down
for you, break it down to the one
you're gonna give it to.
_ Break down children, _
break them down y [Dm]'all.
Break down children, _
break them down.
Yeah it is now.
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Come on children, _ [D] look at me. _
Showing you how _ it's supposed to [D] be.
Do it in the evening, _ late at night.
_ I'm gonna show you, break down it's alright.
_ Break down children, break them down now.
_ Break down children, _ break them down y'all.
Do you wanna see it? _
Do you wanna see it?
Do [G] you wanna [D] see it?
Do you wanna see it?
_ I'm gonna do it for you.
_ I'm gonna do it for you.
I'm gonna do it for y'all.
Yeah it is now. _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Break down,
_ [D] yeah yeah y'all.
Break on down y'all.
Break on down. _ _
_ _ _ Everybody, everybody. _ _
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_ _ Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ oh, oh. _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ Break down children, [D] _
break on down y'all.
Break down children, _ break them down now.
_ Mama can do it, papa too. _
Grandma, grandpa, they doing it too. _
Mama, mama, look at sis.
_ She's in the backyard, breaking down like this.
Oh, [G] break down children, [A] _ [D]
break on down [G] y'all.
Break down children, _ break [D] on down.
Yeah, _ _ _ _ yeah. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[N] _ _ Hey, hey, Mr.
Rufus Thomas, come on Rufus, tell them about it. _ _ _ _
Hey, can you hear me out there? _ _ _ _
_ All right, I [Eb] want everybody, don't want nobody on the field
not yet.
[N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now, when I tell you
to get on the field, then you get on the field.
_ _ _ Then I just might get out on the field with you.
_ _ All right, here we go. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _
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_ _ _ _ Y'all come on in now, _ come right on down front.
_ I got something I wanna show you.
_ If you heard any pop songs, _ you heard them, know. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ But now that's brand new dance that's going around,
_ that I'm [B] gonna tell you exactly what I'm talking [Eb] about, _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ the funky chicken.
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Y'all ready? _ _ _ _ _ _
Y'all ready?
_ _ Okay, here we go.
_ _ _ You [Eb] put your left arm up,
and your right arm too.
_ I'm gonna tell you
what you gotta do.
Drop your wings,
[G] feet start [Eb] kicking, _ now you know
you're doing the funky chicken. _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] Y _ [Ebm] _ 'all ready, fellas?
Y'all ready, fellas?
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_ _ _ _ Put [G] both arms up
[Eb] above your face, _ knees start feeling
all over the place.
Drop your wings,
your feet start kicking, _ now you know
you're doing the funky chicken.
Oh, _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ how _
_ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
you feeling, man?
[C] _ _ [Eb] _ _
Oh, how it feels so good. _ _ _ _
_ Y'all ready, [G] fellas?
_ Y'all ready?
_ _ _ Y'all [G] ready? _
_ Okay, here we go. _ _ _
_ _ You work both arms, you work both [Bb] feet,
[D] we together, baby, [Eb] you right on [Bb] beat.
Drop your wings, your [Cm] feet start kicking, _ [Eb] now you know
you're doing the funky chicken.
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Come on, y'all.
[G] _ _ Now here's what I want you to do.
_ Just [Eb] stand right there where you are,
stand right there where you are, _ and start them arms to flap.
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ Everybody, _ get them arms to flap it.
_ _ Y'all ready, fellas?
Y'all ready, fellas? _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Eb]
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken [Gm] now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
_ Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
_ Do the funky [C] chicken now.
[G] Do the funky [Eb] chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
Do the funky chicken now.
[Gm] _ _
[Eb] _ _ Do the funky chicken now. _ _
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