Chords for FivePenny Piece (The Bantam Cock). Brilliant, best version

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_ _ _ [Eb] So, [G] _
_ [Ab] I _ shall continue with the love theme from my new Irish musical, _
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entitled _ The Stupid Prince.
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The plot's very simple. _ _
_ _ He starts off life as a frog, [G] _ _ _
and finishes up _ as a bloody frog.
_ _ [Ab] Not
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[G] [Abm] only that, he manages to change [G] his princess into an oversexed bantam [Gm] cunt. _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ [Eb] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [E] _ [Db] _ _
_ _ _ You're a [Eb] grand old [E] standing [Eb] bantam! _ _
_ _ [Ab] Saucy bum, brisk and spry.
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_ _ _ [Db] With [Abm] springy [A] step and a [Ab] jaunty [Abm] plume.
And a [Ab] purposeful look in his eye. _ _
_ [E] And his little [Eb] black [Db] blinking eye.
[Eb] _ [E] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ I took [E] him to the coop, _ [Db] and I [E] introduced him. _
To me sixteen [Ab] wide-eyed hens. _
_ _ [Db] He opt [B] and he [Am] top like [Ab] an ear o' tops. _ _
He bowed from the waist to them all. _
_ _ Then he opt and he topped them [Db] all [Eb] again.
_ [E] _ [F] _
_ _ _ He did.
_ [Gb] _ [Eb] Then [Db] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] upon the base of [Db] me [E] ducks and me [Ab] geese. _ _
[Dbm] He [Gb] rudely did [Ab] intrude. _
_ Tune that bugger up one of these nights.
_ _ _ _ With [B] lazed [Am] eyes and [Abm] open mouths.
[Db] They bore [E] it all with [Ab] fortitude. _
[Abm] _ _ [E] And a little [Eb] bit of gratitude.
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_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ He [Eb] thumped my [E] giggling [Eb] guinea fowl.
[Abm] _ _
Then forced his attentions upon. _ _
[Db] My [B] twenty [A] hysterical [Ab] turkeys and.
_ [Db] A visiting [Ab] migrant swamp.
[Abm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ For the bantam [Eb] _
[Db] thunderdome.
[Eb] _ _ [E] _ [Eb] _
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_ He [Eb] ravished my [E] bantam [Abm] pigeons.
_ _ And me lily white _ columbines. _ _
_ And whilst I were [A] looking at me [Abm]
[Db] budgerigar.
[E] He jumped my [Ab] parrot from behind. _
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_ _ [E] She was sitting [Db] on me shoulder at the time.
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[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
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With a gasp and a _ [Ab] _
jolt.
He clasped [Ab] his hands to his head.
_ _ [Db] Fell [B] flat on his [Am] back with his toes [Ab] in the [Db] air.
My [Gb] bantam [Ab] completely dead.
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And the [Eb] vulture circled [Db] over it.
[Eb] _
[E] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [E] _
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] _ _ _
_ What a champion [E]
beast.
_ [Db] What a noble [E]
guy.
[Ab] _ _ What a [Gb] way to [Ab] live and to die.
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Now we're digging him a [Am] grave to [Abm] save his bones.
_ [Db] From the [Gb] hungry vultures [Ab] in the sky.
_ _ _ [E] When the [Eb] bantam opened [Db] up a [Eb] sly little [E] nest.
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[Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [G] _
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_ _ _ [Db] He gave [E] me a [Db] wink and a [E] terrible grip.
[Ab] _ _
_ _ [Db] The [Ab] way that rapists do.
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[G] He says.
[Db] You see [B] them big [A] duff [Ab] boogers over. _ _ _
[Db] They'll be [E] down in a [Ab] minute or two. _
_ [E] They'll be down [Eb] in a [Abm] minute or two.
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