{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1726279,"song":"The Bantom Cock","artist":"Jake Thackray","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11367472-the-bantom-cock-chords-by-jake-thackray/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1726279?type=chord","rating":4.60467,"votes":12,"content":"[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt was a grand upstanding bantam cock,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo brisk and stiff and spry,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWith springy step and jaunty plume[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd a purposeful look in his eye,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIn his little black blinking eye, he had.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI took him to the coop and introduced him[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTo my seventeen wide-eyed hens.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe tupped and he tupped as a hero tups[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd he bowed from the waist to them all, and then[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe upped and he tupped 'em all again, he did.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd then upon the peace of me ducks and me geese[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe rudely did intrude.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWith glazed emyes and open mouths[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey bore it all with fortitude[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd a little bit of gratitude, they did.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe jumped my giggling guinea fowl[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd forced his attentions upon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMy twenty hysterical turkeys and[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nA visiting migrant swan.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut the bantam thundered on, he did.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe ravished my fan-tailed pigeons and[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMe lily-white columbines,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd while I was locking up the budgerigar[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe jumped my parrot from behind;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShe was sitting on me shoulder at the time.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd all of a sudden with a gasp and a gulp[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe clapped his hands to his head,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]EM[/ch]\r\nFell flat on his back with his toes in the air.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy bantam cock lay dead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the vultures circled overhead, they did.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhat a champion brute; what a noble cock;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhat a way to live and to die.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI was diggin' him a grave to save his bones[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFrom the hungry buzzards in the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen the bantam opened up a sly little eye.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe gave me a grin and a terrible wink[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe way that roosters do.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe said, 'You see them big daft buggers up there?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey'll be down in a minute or two;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThey'll be down in a minute or two.'[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["Am","G","F","Em","E","A","EM"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}