《Bantam Cock》歌词

[00:00:00] Bantam Cock - Jake Thackray

[00:00:17] It was a grand upstanding bantam cock

[00:00:20] So brisk and stiff and spry

[00:00:23] With springy step and jaunty plume

[00:00:26] And a purposeful look in his eye

[00:00:28] In his little black blinking eye he had

[00:00:36] I took him to the coop and introduced him

[00:00:39] To my seventeen wide-eyed hens

[00:00:42] He tupped and he tupped as a hero tups

[00:00:44] And he bowed from the waist to them all and then

[00:00:47] He upped and he tupped 'em all again he did

[00:00:55] And then upon the peace of me ducks and me geese

[00:00:58] He rudely did intrude

[00:01:00] With glazed eyes and open mouths

[00:01:03] They bore it all with fortitude

[00:01:06] And a little bit of gratitude they did

[00:01:14] He jumped my giggling guinea fowl

[00:01:17] And forced his attentions upon

[00:01:19] My twenty hysterical turkeys and

[00:01:22] A visiting migrant swan

[00:01:25] But the bantam thundered on he did

[00:01:33] He ravished my fan-tailed pigeons and

[00:01:36] Me lily-white columbines

[00:01:38] And while I was locking up the budgerigar

[00:01:41] He jumped my parrot from behind

[00:01:43] She was sitting on me shoulder at the time

[00:01:52] And all of a sudden with a gasp and a gulp

[00:01:54] He clapped his hands to his head

[00:01:57] Fell flat on his back with his toes in the air

[00:02:00] My bantam cock lay dead

[00:02:02] And the vultures circled overhead they did

[00:02:10] What a champion brute what a noble cock

[00:02:13] What a way to live and to die

[00:02:16] I was diggin' him a grave to save his bones

[00:02:18] From the hungry buzzards in the sky

[00:02:21] When the bantam opened up a sly little eye

[00:02:29] He gave me a grin and a terrible wink

[00:02:32] The way that rapists do

[00:02:36] He said you see them big daft buggers up there

[00:02:41] They'll be down in a minute or two

[00:02:43] They'll be down in a minute or two