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He was a fine upstanding bantam cock,
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So brisk and stiff and spry,
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With springy step and jaunty plume
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And a purposeful look in his eye,
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In his little black laughing eye,
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I took him to the coop and introduced him
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To my seventeen wide-eyed hens.
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He tupped and he tupped as a hero tups
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And he bowed to them all, and then
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He upped and he tupped 'em all again, he did.
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And then upon the peace of me ducks and me geese
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He boldly did intrude.
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With glazed eyes and open mouths
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They bore it all with fortitude
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And a little bit of gratitude, they did.
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He jumped my giggling guinea fowl
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He thrust his attentions upon
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My twenty hysterical turkeys and
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A visiting migrant swan.
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But the bantam thundered on, he did.
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He groped me fan-tailed pigeons and
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Me lily-white columbine,
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And as I was locking up the budgerigar
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He jumped my parrot from behind;
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Who was sitting on me shoulder at the time.
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But all of a sudden with a gasp and a gulp
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He clapped his hands to his head,
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Fell flat on his back with his feet in the air.
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My bantam cock lay dead
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And the vultures circled overhead.
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What a noble beast; what a champion cock;
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What a way to live and to die.
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I was diggin' him a grave to protect his bones
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From the hungry buzzards in the sky
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When the bantam opened up a sly little eye.
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He gave me a wink and a terrible grin
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The way that rapists do.
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He said, 'You see them silly daft buggers up there?
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They'll be down in a minute or two;
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They'll be down in a minute or two.'
