Bantam Cock Chords by Jake Thackray
Tempo:
92.35 bpm
Chords used:
E
Am
G
A
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Am] [E] [F]
[Am]
It was a [G] grand upstanding [Am] Bantam Cox, O Briscombe Stefan's plight,
With springy step and [E] jaunty plume, And a purposeful look in his eye,
[F] In his little black [Am] blinking eye he had.
I took him [G] to the coop,
And introduced him to my seventeen wide-eyed hands,
He tucked and he tucked as a [E] hero tucks, And he bowed from the waist to them all,
And then he upped and [Am] he tucked them all again he did.
And then upon [G] the peace of me ducks and me geese,
[A] He rudely did [F] intrude, [A] With glazed eyes and open [C#] mouths,
They bought it all with [E] fortitude, And a little bit of [A] gratitude they [Am] did.
He jumped my giggling guinea fowl, And forced his attentions upon,
[E] My twenty [G] hysterical [E] turkeys, And a [B] visiting my glum swan,
But the Bantam [A] found the wrong he did.
[Am] He ravished my [G] fantailed pigeons,
And me lily-white [E] columbines, And while I was locking [E] up a [C] budgerigar,
He jumped my parrot [E] from behind, She was sitting on me [Am] shoulder at the time.
[E] And all of a [A] sudden with a gasp and [G] a gulp, He clapped [F] his hands to his head,
Fell flat on his back with his toes in the air,
My [E] Bantam coquered I did, And the vultures circled overhead [A] they did.
[Am]
What a [G] champion brute, what a noble cock, What [Em] a way to live and to die,
[A] I was digging in my grave to save [Em] his bones, From the [E] hungry buzzards in the sky,
[F] When the Bantam [Am] opened up a sly little eye, [E] He gave me a grin and a terrible [A] wink,
The way [G] that rapists do.
[E]
He said,
You [Am] see them big gaff [E]-poggers up there, [G] They'll be down in a [Em] minute or two.
[F] They'll be down in [Am] a minute or two.
[Am]
It was a [G] grand upstanding [Am] Bantam Cox, O Briscombe Stefan's plight,
With springy step and [E] jaunty plume, And a purposeful look in his eye,
[F] In his little black [Am] blinking eye he had.
I took him [G] to the coop,
And introduced him to my seventeen wide-eyed hands,
He tucked and he tucked as a [E] hero tucks, And he bowed from the waist to them all,
And then he upped and [Am] he tucked them all again he did.
And then upon [G] the peace of me ducks and me geese,
[A] He rudely did [F] intrude, [A] With glazed eyes and open [C#] mouths,
They bought it all with [E] fortitude, And a little bit of [A] gratitude they [Am] did.
He jumped my giggling guinea fowl, And forced his attentions upon,
[E] My twenty [G] hysterical [E] turkeys, And a [B] visiting my glum swan,
But the Bantam [A] found the wrong he did.
[Am] He ravished my [G] fantailed pigeons,
And me lily-white [E] columbines, And while I was locking [E] up a [C] budgerigar,
He jumped my parrot [E] from behind, She was sitting on me [Am] shoulder at the time.
[E] And all of a [A] sudden with a gasp and [G] a gulp, He clapped [F] his hands to his head,
Fell flat on his back with his toes in the air,
My [E] Bantam coquered I did, And the vultures circled overhead [A] they did.
[Am]
What a [G] champion brute, what a noble cock, What [Em] a way to live and to die,
[A] I was digging in my grave to save [Em] his bones, From the [E] hungry buzzards in the sky,
[F] When the Bantam [Am] opened up a sly little eye, [E] He gave me a grin and a terrible [A] wink,
The way [G] that rapists do.
[E]
He said,
You [Am] see them big gaff [E]-poggers up there, [G] They'll be down in a [Em] minute or two.
[F] They'll be down in [Am] a minute or two.
Key:
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[Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It was a [G] grand upstanding [Am] Bantam Cox, O Briscombe Stefan's plight,
With springy step and [E] jaunty plume, And a purposeful look in his eye,
[F] In his little black [Am] blinking eye he had. _ _ _ _ _
I took him [G] to the coop,
And introduced him to my seventeen wide-eyed hands,
He tucked and he tucked as a [E] hero tucks, And he bowed from the waist to them all,
And then he upped and [Am] he tucked them all again he did. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And then upon [G] the peace of me ducks and me geese,
[A] He rudely did [F] intrude, [A] With glazed eyes and open [C#] mouths,
They bought it all with [E] fortitude, And a little bit of [A] gratitude they [Am] did. _ _ _ _
_ He jumped my giggling guinea fowl, And forced his attentions upon,
[E] My twenty [G] hysterical [E] turkeys, And a [B] visiting my glum swan,
But the Bantam [A] found the wrong he did.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ He ravished my [G] fantailed pigeons,
And me lily-white [E] columbines, And while I was locking [E] up a [C] budgerigar,
He jumped my parrot [E] from behind, She was sitting on me [Am] shoulder at the time. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] And all of a [A] sudden with a gasp and [G] a gulp, He clapped [F] his hands to his head,
Fell flat on his back with his toes in the air,
My [E] Bantam coquered I did, And the vultures circled overhead [A] they did.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
What a [G] champion brute, what a noble cock, What [Em] a way to live and to die,
[A] I was digging in my grave to save [Em] his bones, From the [E] hungry buzzards in the sky,
[F] When the Bantam [Am] opened up a sly little eye, _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] He gave me a grin and a terrible [A] wink,
The way [G] that rapists do.
[E] _
He said,
You [Am] see them big gaff [E]-poggers up there, [G] They'll be down in a [Em] minute or two.
[F] They'll be down in [Am] a minute or two.
[Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ It was a [G] grand upstanding [Am] Bantam Cox, O Briscombe Stefan's plight,
With springy step and [E] jaunty plume, And a purposeful look in his eye,
[F] In his little black [Am] blinking eye he had. _ _ _ _ _
I took him [G] to the coop,
And introduced him to my seventeen wide-eyed hands,
He tucked and he tucked as a [E] hero tucks, And he bowed from the waist to them all,
And then he upped and [Am] he tucked them all again he did. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And then upon [G] the peace of me ducks and me geese,
[A] He rudely did [F] intrude, [A] With glazed eyes and open [C#] mouths,
They bought it all with [E] fortitude, And a little bit of [A] gratitude they [Am] did. _ _ _ _
_ He jumped my giggling guinea fowl, And forced his attentions upon,
[E] My twenty [G] hysterical [E] turkeys, And a [B] visiting my glum swan,
But the Bantam [A] found the wrong he did.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ He ravished my [G] fantailed pigeons,
And me lily-white [E] columbines, And while I was locking [E] up a [C] budgerigar,
He jumped my parrot [E] from behind, She was sitting on me [Am] shoulder at the time. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] And all of a [A] sudden with a gasp and [G] a gulp, He clapped [F] his hands to his head,
Fell flat on his back with his toes in the air,
My [E] Bantam coquered I did, And the vultures circled overhead [A] they did.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
What a [G] champion brute, what a noble cock, What [Em] a way to live and to die,
[A] I was digging in my grave to save [Em] his bones, From the [E] hungry buzzards in the sky,
[F] When the Bantam [Am] opened up a sly little eye, _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] He gave me a grin and a terrible [A] wink,
The way [G] that rapists do.
[E] _
He said,
You [Am] see them big gaff [E]-poggers up there, [G] They'll be down in a [Em] minute or two.
[F] They'll be down in [Am] a minute or two.