Bantam Cock-Jake Thackray

[ti:Bantam Cock] [ar:Jake Thackray] [al:The Very Best Of Jake Thackray] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bantam Cock - Jake Thackray [00:17.66]It was a grand upstanding bantam cock [00:20.62]So brisk and stiff and spry [00:22.82] [00:23.33]With springy step and jaunty plume [00:26.03]And a purposeful look in his eye [00:28.65]In his little black blinking eye he had [00:32.02] [00:36.63]I took him to the coop and introduced him [00:39.45]To my seventeen wide-eyed hens [00:42.30]He tupped and he tupped as a hero tups [00:44.97]And he bowed from the waist to them all and then [00:47.95]He upped and he tupped 'em all again he did [00:50.27] [00:55.45]And then upon the peace of me ducks and me geese [00:58.35]He rudely did intrude [01:00.94]With glazed eyes and open mouths [01:03.92]They bore it all with fortitude [01:06.37]And a little bit of gratitude they did [01:10.06] [01:14.23]He jumped my giggling guinea fowl [01:17.28]And forced his attentions upon [01:19.23] [01:19.74]My twenty hysterical turkeys and [01:22.56]A visiting migrant swan [01:25.17]But the bantam thundered on he did [01:27.78] [01:33.25]He ravished my fan-tailed pigeons and [01:36.21]Me lily-white columbines [01:38.63]And while I was locking up the budgerigar [01:41.41]He jumped my parrot from behind [01:43.98]She was sitting on me shoulder at the time [01:46.27] [01:52.07]And all of a sudden with a gasp and a gulp [01:54.81]He clapped his hands to his head [01:56.84] [01:57.41]Fell flat on his back with his toes in the air [02:00.13]My bantam cock lay dead [02:02.77]And the vultures circled overhead they did [02:05.36] [02:10.88]What a champion brute what a noble cock [02:13.58]What a way to live and to die [02:16.12]I was diggin' him a grave to save his bones [02:18.96]From the hungry buzzards in the sky [02:21.58]When the bantam opened up a sly little eye [02:24.29] [02:29.70]He gave me a grin and a terrible wink [02:32.41]The way that rapists do [02:34.71] [02:36.00]He said you see them big daft buggers up there [02:39.82] [02:41.12]They'll be down in a minute or two [02:43.69]They'll be down in a minute or two