《Delaney’s Donkey》歌词

[00:00:00] Delaney's Donkey - Val Doonican

[00:00:01] Now Delaney had a donkey that everyone admired

[00:00:05] Temporarily lazy and permanently tired

[00:00:08] A leg at every corner balancing his head

[00:00:11] And a tail to let you know which end he wanted to be fed

[00:00:14] Riley slyly said we've underrated it why not train it then they took a rag

[00:00:21] They rubbed it scrubbed it they oiled and embrocated it

[00:00:24] Got it at the post and when the starter dropped the flag

[00:00:27] There was Riley pushin' it shovin' it shushin' it

[00:00:30] Hogan Logan and everyone in town

[00:00:34] Lined up attackin' it and shovin' it and smackin' it

[00:00:37] They might as well have tried to push the Town Hall down

[00:00:40] The donkey was eyein' them openly defyin' them

[00:00:43] Winkin' blinkin' and twistin' out of place

[00:00:46] Riley reversin' it everybody cursin' it

[00:00:49] The day Delaney's donkey ran the halfmile race

[00:00:53] The muscles of the mighty never known to flinch

[00:00:56] They couldn't move the donkey a quarter of an inch

[00:00:59] Delaney lay exhausted hangin' round his throat

[00:01:02] With a grip just like a Scotsman on the five pound note

[00:01:05] Starter Carter he lined up with the rest of them

[00:01:09] When it saw them it was willin' then

[00:01:12] It raced up braced up ready for the best of them

[00:01:15] They started off to cheer it but it changed it's mind again

[00:01:18] And there was Riley pushin' it shovin' it shushin' it

[00:01:22] Hogan Logan and Mary Ann Macgraw

[00:01:25] She started pokin' it an' grabbin' it an' chokin' it

[00:01:28] It kicked her in the bustle and it laughed hee-hah

[00:01:31] The whigs and conservatives the radical superlatives

[00:01:35] Liberals and tories they hurried to the place

[00:01:38] Stood there in unity helpin' the community

[00:01:41] The day Delaney's donkey ran the halfmile race

[00:01:44] The crowd began to cheer it then Rafferty the judge

[00:01:47] He came to assist them but still it wouldn't budge

[00:01:50] And The jockey who was riding little little John MacGee

[00:01:54] Was so thoroughly disgusted that he went to have his tea

[00:01:57] Hagan Fagan was students of psychology

[00:02:00] Swore they'd shift it with some dynamite

[00:02:03] They bought it brought it and without apology

[00:02:07] The donkey gave a sneeze and blew the her out of sight

[00:02:10] There was Riley pushing it shoving it and shushing it

[00:02:13] Hogan Logan and all the bally crew

[00:02:16] Police and auxil'ary

[00:02:18] The Garrison Artillery

[00:02:19] The Second Enniskillen's and the Life Guards too

[00:02:23] They seized it and harried it

[00:02:24] They picked it up and carried it

[00:02:26] Cheered it steered it to the winning place

[00:02:31] Then the Bookies drew aside

[00:02:34] And They all commited suicide

[00:02:37] The day Delaney's donkey won the halfmile race