Delaney from the market bought a fowl month ago If he meets man who sold it will kill him with blow He said was chicken of plump and tender breed But more deceitful bird you'll never hear or read. When they settled down to pluck all their efforts were in vain hands torn blistered muscles had strain So dressed its feathers then put stew you want make wild shout "Cock-a-doodle-do. That must have crowed when built tower Babel Was fed by Cain Abel lived Noah's stable All shots that fired on field Waterloo Couldn't penetrate dislocate elongated armour-plated Double-breasted iron chested Cock-a-doodle-do. just give us spread On Sunday guests arrived went clean off his head In yard picks shovels twisted up like tin tried carve with but couldn't break skin We borrowed Daly's rammer which rams stones And thought one gentle would chicken's bones At first rebounded an India-rubber ball knocked ten yards coping Mulhanny's garden wall. Mick Dunn ex-dragoon excavate thing sword carved Russians bent string Tim Burke navvy miner through young showed daylight By blowing himself pound dynamite To scrape walls wasn't very easy work It puzzled find out chicken Burke I found leg bird friendly blacksmith's aid A pair everlasting heels upon my boots I've made.