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