G'day,
From the Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs, Ed Pellow's rendition of the tune of The Cock-Fight can be found here.

THE COCK-FIGHT (THE BONNY GREY)

Sung by J. Collinson, Casterton, Lancashire (C.J.S 1905)

Come all you cockers, far and near.
I'll tell of a cock-fight, when and where.
At Tumbler's Hill, they all did say,
Between the black and the bonny grey.

Chorus
With a hip and a ha, and a loud hooray,
The charcoal black and the bonny grey!

It's to the house to take a sup;
The cock-fight it was soon made up.
Ten guineas a side these cocks will play,
The charcoal black and the bonny grey.

Lord Derby he came swaggering down.
'I'll lay ten guineas to half a crown,
If the charcoal black he gets fair play,
He'll rip the wings off the bonny grey.'

These cocks hadn't struck past two or three blows,
When the Biggar lads cried: 'Now you'll lose.'
Which made us all both wan and pale.
We wished we'd fought for a gallon of ale.

And the cocks they at it, one, two, three,
And the charcoal black got struck in the eye,
They picked him up to see fair play,
But the black wouldn't fight with the bonny grey.

With the silver breast and the silver wing,
Six brothers of his fought before the king.
With a hip and a ha, and a loud hooray,
And away we went with our bonny grey!

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Cheers,
Alan ^^