《Delany’s Donkey (Live)》歌词

[00:00:06] Delaney had a donkey that everyone admired

[00:00:09] Temporarily lazy and permanently tired

[00:00:12] A leg at every corner balancing his head

[00:00:15] And a tail to let you know which end he wanted to be fed

[00:00:18] Riley slyly said we've underrated it

[00:00:22] Why not train it then they took a rag

[00:00:25] They rubbed it scrubbed it they oiled and embrocated it

[00:00:28] Got it at the post and when the starter dropped the flag

[00:00:31] There was Riley pushing' it shoving' it shushing' it

[00:00:35] Hogan Logan and everyone in town

[00:00:38] Lined up attacking' it and shoving' it and smacking' it

[00:00:41] They might as well have tried to push the Town Hall down

[00:00:44] The donkey was eyeing' them openly defying' them

[00:00:48] Winking' blinking' and twisting' out of place

[00:00:51] Riley reversing' it everybody cursing' it

[00:00:54] The day Delaney's donkey ran the halfmile race

[00:01:04] The muscles of the mighty never known to flinch

[00:01:07] They couldn't move the donkey a quarter of an inch

[00:01:10] Delaney lay exhausted hanging' round his throat

[00:01:13] With a grip just like a Scotsman on the five pound note

[00:01:17] Starter Carter he lined up with the rest of them

[00:01:20] When it saw them it was willing' then

[00:01:23] It raced up braced up ready for the best of them

[00:01:26] They started off to cheer it but it changed its mind again

[00:01:30] And there was Riley pushing' it shoving' it shushing' it

[00:01:33] Hogan Logan and Mary Ann Macgraw

[00:01:36] She started poking' it an' grabbing' it an' choking' it

[00:01:40] It kicked her in the bustle and it laughed heehah

[00:01:43] The whigs and conservatives the radical superlatives

[00:01:46] Liberals and tories they hurried to the place

[00:01:49] Stood there in unity helping' the community

[00:01:53] The day Delaney's donkey ran the halfmile race

[00:02:02] The crowd began to cheer it then Rafferty the judge

[00:02:05] He came up to assist them but still it wouldn't budge

[00:02:08] And the jockey who was riding' it little John McGee

[00:02:12] Was so thoroughly disgusted that he went and had his tea

[00:02:15] Hagan Fagan were students of psychology

[00:02:18] Swore they'd shift him with some dynamite

[00:02:22] They bought it brought it and without apology

[00:02:25] The donkey gave a sneeze and blew the whole lot out of sight

[00:02:28] There was Riley pushing' it shoving' it shushing' it

[00:02:32] Hogan Logan and all the bally crew

[00:02:35] Police and auxiliary the Garrison Artillery

[00:02:38] The Second Enniskillen's and the Life Guards too

[00:02:42] They seized it and harried it they picked it up and carried it

[00:02:45] Cheered it steered it to the winning' place

[00:02:49] Then the bookmakers drew aside and they all committed suicide

[00:02:53] The day Delaney's donkey won the half mile race