Chords for The Corries --- The Bantam Cock

This is all about a Bantam [Gm] cock _ _ a
[Ab] _ Very very [B] Randy
[Eb] No, _ [Ab] _ it's true.
This was on a farm up near us and and this this thing was it [Gm] was into everything it was
_ [Cm] _ It was it [Ab] was some wish it was just a blur, you know
Not even the water pump was safe.
[G] You know, it was
_ [C] _ So _
_ [Gm] so what I'm singing it try and imagine [C] this this
[Ab] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [N] This
This little bundle of kind of evil feathers, you know
[G]
The red eye right in the center of it, you know
He [Cm] _ [Bb] _
[Ab] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
[Fm] _ [G] _ [Cm] _ [Gm] _ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _
[Gm] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
was a fine upstanding Bantam cock [Cm] so brisk and [Gm] stiff and spry
We're springy step on a jaunty plume
_ [Cm] and a [Gm] purposeful look in his eye
[Eb] In [Bb] his little black laughing eye
[Fm] _ [Gm] [C] So [Bb] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ I [C] took him to the coop and introduced him to [Gm] me 17 wide-eyed hands
[Eb] And he took to the [Cm] book to say [Gm] hero
_ [Cm] And he bowed to [Gm] them all and then
[Cm] He up and took him all [Bb] again
_ [Gm] _
[C] [Bb] Well, _ [Gm] _ _ [Ab] then upon the peace of me [Gm] ducks and geese [Cm] he boldly [Gm] did intrude
[Eb] And with [Bb] glazed [Abm] eyes and [Gm] open mouths
They bore him with fortitude
and a little bit of [Cm] gratitude
[Bb] _ [Fm] _ [Gm] [Cm] He [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _
jumped [Gm] me giggling guinea fowl he thrust his attentions upon
[Eb] me 20 [Bb] [Gm] hysterical turkeys and a
visiting migrant swan
[Eb] _ on a Bantam [Bb] Thunderdome
_ _ [C] [Bb] He [Fm] _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [Cm] groped me fantail [Gm] pigeon doves
_ _ And me and _ [C]
me lily white [Gm] Columbine
_ [Cm] And as [Bbm] I was a-looking on me [Eb] _ budgerigar
_ He _ jumped me [Cm] parrot from behind _ _
It _ [Gm] was sitting on [Cm] me shoulder at the [Fm] time
[Gm] _
[Cm] But [Fm] _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _
[C] _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ all of a [Eb] sudden with a gasp and a gulp he clapped his wings [Gm] to his head
[Eb] He lay flat on his back [Ab] with his feet in [Gm] the air
Me Bantam cock was dead
_ _ And [N] _ _ _
[Eb] the vultures [Gm] _ circled [Fm] overhead
_ [Gm] _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ [Gm] You're _ _
[Bb] _ [Cm] way ahead of me out there, [Bb] hold on
[Gm] [Cm] What _
[Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ a noble beast what a champion cock [Cm] what a way to [Gm] live and to die
[Eb] But as I dug him [Bbm] a grave to protect [Gm] his bones from those hungry buzzards in the sky
[Cm] The Bantam opened up a sly little [Bb] eye
_ [Gm] _
[Cm] _ [Bb] [Fm] He [Gm] _ _ gave me a wink and a terrible grin
_ [Eb] The way that [Gm] rapists do
_ He [Eb] _
said you see [Bb] them silly [Gm] daft buggers up there _
_ [Cm] They'll be down [G] in a minute or two _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
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