A Chicken Ain’t Nothing But A Bird

"A Chicken Ain't Nothing but a Bird" is a 1940 jive novelty song. This page has the A Chicken Ain't Nothing but a Bird chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "A Chicken Ain't Nothing but a Bird"

It is credited to Babe Wallace, and Cab Calloway and his orchestra recorded it in 1940; the lyric is a list of plain truths in the jive style of the time.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Cab Calloway (1940).