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Jeni & Billy's song about a winding rural ridge in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia.

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© Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, 2007

Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Don’t you wanna go?
If you’ve a notion
we could do-si-do.
Curves on Chicken Ridge,
kissin’ back to back,
make a crooked road
and there ain’t no turnin’ back.

Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Don’t you wanna go?

There ain’t no shoulders,
ain’t no lines,
just a little mule road
cut between the mines.
Houses up on Chicken Ridge,
lonesome and squat,
left by the miners
the company forgot.

Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Don’t you wanna go?

The top of the world
is closer than you know.
Take my hand, we’ll
catch a cloud and go.
Up that windy road
we’ll spin from ear to ear
and find ourselves
in that high atmosphere.

Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Goin’ up Chicken Ridge
Don’t you wanna go?

credits

from Live in LA with the Big Picnic Band, track released May 1, 2015
© Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, 2007

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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