Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Bantam Cock, artist - The Corries. Album song The Comedy Collection, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.2008
Record label: GB
Song language: English
The Bantam Cock |
It was a grand upstanding bantam cock |
So brisk and stiff and spry |
With springy step and jaunty plume |
And a purposeful look in his eye |
In his little black blinking eye, he had |
I took him to the coop and introduced him |
To my seventeen wide-eyed hens |
He tupped and he tupped as a hero tups |
And he bowed from the waist to them all, and then |
He upped and he tupped 'em all again, he did |
And then upon the peace of me ducks and me geese |
He rudely did intrude |
With glazed eyes and open mouths |
They bore it all with fortitude |
And a little bit of gratitude, they did |
He jumped my giggling guinea fowl |
And forced his attentions upon |
My twenty hysterical turkeys and |
A visiting migrant swan |
But the bantam thundered on, he did |
He ravished my fan-tailed pigeons and |
Me lily-white columbines |
And while I was locking up the budgerigar |
He jumped my parrot from behind; |
She was sitting on me shoulder at the time |
And all of a sudden with a gasp and a gulp |
He clapped his hands to his head |
Fell flat on his back with his toes in the air |
My bantam cock lay dead |
And the vultures circled overhead, they did |
What a champion brute; |
what a noble cock; |
What a way to live and to die |
I was diggin' him a grave to save his bones |
From the hungry buzzards in the sky |
When the bantam opened up a sly little eye |
He gave me a grin and a terrible wink |
The way that rapists do |
He said, 'You see them big daft buggers up there? |
They’ll be down in a minute or two; |
They’ll be down in a minute or two.' |