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