Wow. I was trying to find out if it was "queue", "quay", and "quivvy" (all unresolved). Not unusual to find a zillion different versions, but I am surprised that so far all of them have the old men as "diabetic". My stepfather taught me to say "apathetic, sympathetic, PERIPATETIC old men on roller skates". (I grew up in the 1970s; I think he learned it in the late 50s.)

Also I think I've heard it (mistakenly?) with the lyrical spherical denizens in the ninth place, and the old men in the tenth, but in that case their propensity for sloth falls by the wayside.

This is the version that "sounds right" to me:

One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four limerick oysters
Five corpulent porpoises
Six pairs of Don Alberzo's tweezers
Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
Nine lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep
Ten apathetic, sympathetic, peripatetic old men on roller-skates *[with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth?]* who haul-stall around the corner of the queue of the quay of the quivvy, all at the same time


I may have 9 and 10 switched, probably do.
side comment: I always thought those denizens of the deep sounded like some kind of stinging jellyfish.