Key: Bb major
Verse 1
C#
F#
Now Delaney had a donkey
B
F#
that everyone admired,
D#m
F#
C#
Tem po'rily lazy and permanently tired
F#
B
F#
A leg at ev'ry corner balancing his head,
C#sus4
F#
end he wanted to be fed
D#m
A#
D#m
Riley slyly said "We've underrated it,
why not train it?"
A#
D#m
Then he took a rag
They oiled and embrocated it,
Verse 2
B
F#
it, shoving it,
shushing it
C#
F#
in town lined up
B
F#
Attacking it and shoving it and smacking it
C#
G#
They might as well have tried
B
F#
Openly defying them
D#m
F#
C#
Winking, blinking and twisting out of place
F#
B
C#sus4
The day Delaney's donkey ran the
C#
F#
halfmile race.
Verse 3
B
F#
never known to flinch,
F#
C#
a quarter of an inch
B
F#
hanging round its throat
C#
F#
on a five pound note
A#
D#m
lined up with the rest of 'em.
A#
D#m
When it saw them, it was willing then
ready for the best of 'em.
B
F#
They started off to cheer it but it
Verse 4
pushing it, shov
B
F#
ing it and shushing it
F#
C#
F#
Ann Macgraw,
She started poking it,
B
F#
grabbing it and choking it
C#
G#
It kicked her in the bustle and it
B
F#
Radical superlatives
F#
B
The day Delaney's donkey ran
C#sus4
C#
F#
the halfmile race.
Verse 5
F#
F#
C#
still it wouldn't budge
B
F#
little John MacGee,
C#sus4
C#
F#
he went to have his tea
D#m
A#
Hagan, Fagan was students
Swore they'd shift it
A#
D#m
with some dynamite
then without apology
B
D#m
B
F#
The donkey gave a sneeze and blew the
Verse 6
pushing it, shov
B
F#
ing it and shushing it
D#m
C#
Hogan, Logan and all the bally crew,
B
F#
The Garrison Artillery
C#
G#
The Second Enniskillen's and the
C#
G#
C#
Life Guards too
B
F#
They picked it up and carried it
D#m
F#
Cheered it, steered it to the
F#
B
And They all commited suicide
B
C#
donkey won the halfmile race.
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