Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Now Delaney had a donkey
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that everyone ad mired
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A leg at every corner balancing his head
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end he wanted to be fed
Verse 2
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said we've underrated it
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Why not train it, then they took a rag?
oiled and embrocated it
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D
starter dropped the flag
Verse 3
pushin' it,
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shovin' it, shushin' it
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shovin' it and smackin' it
to push the town hall down
Verse 4
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openly defyin' them
Winkin',
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C
Riley reversin' it, everybody cursin' it
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C
The day Delaney's donkey ran
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the half mile race
Verse 5
They couldn't move the donkey
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hangin' round his throat
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on the five pound note
Em
Starter,
Verse 6
Carter,
Bm
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he lined up with the rest of them
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When it saw them, it was willin' then
ready for the best of them
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D
They started off to cheer it but
it changed its mind again
Verse 7
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shovin' it, shushin' it
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Hogan, Logan and Mary Ann Macgraw
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It kicked her in the bustle
Verse 8
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The The whigs and conservatives,
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the radical superlatives
Liberals and tories,
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The day Delaney's donkey ran
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the halfmile race
Verse 9
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The crowd began to cheer it, then Rafferty,
He came up to assist them, but
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still it wouldn't bud
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little John MacGee
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he went to have his tea
Verse 10
Em
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Hagan, Fagan was students
Swore they'd shift it
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with some dynamite
then without apology
Verse 11
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The Garrison Artillery
the life guards too
Verse 12
and harried it
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They picked it up and carried it
Cheered it, steered it to
Verse 13
drew aside,
The day Delaney's donkey
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