Do chickens count?
Jim Carroll

Delaney's Chicken.
Air Garden Where The Praties Grow (near enough)
Recorded from Mikey Kelleher,
August 1977.

Now Delaney, from the market bought a fowl a month ago,
If he find the man that sold it he'll kill him with a blow;
Delaney bought this chicken, being of a tender breed
And of a more deceitful bird you never heard agreed.

So when they sought to pluck it, their efforts was in vain,
Their hands were torn and blistered and their muscles they were strained,
And resting of this chicken, they put him down to stew,
If you want to see Delaney crack, cry cock-a-doodle-doo.

So Delaney bought this chicken for to give us all a spread
And after they arriving home they tried to pull off his head,
They ordered picks and shovels, they got twisted up like tin,
They tried to carve the chicken but they couldn't break the skin.

So this bird must have been crowing since they built the Tower of Babel,
He was fed by Cain and Abel and he lived in Noah's stable,
All the shots and shells was fired in the field of Waterloo,
Could not penetrate or dislocate the tilugated armour-plated,
Double-breasted, iron-chested, cock-a-doodle-doo.

So they borrowed Daley's rammer, by which he rammed the stones,
Thinking that when tapped, would break the tender chicken's bones,
But the first one has rebounded like an India rubber ball
And knocked twelve yards of coping out of Mulligan's garden wall.

So this bird must have been crowing since they built the Tower of Babel,
He was fed by Cain and Abel and he lived in Noah's stable,
All the shots and shells was fired in the field of Waterloo, C
Could not penetrate or dislocate the tilugated armour-plated,
Double-breasted, iron-chested, cock-a-doodle-doo.

Oh the Dundee Extra Gunners came to excavate the thing,
And the sortie called the Russia with, while light three yards of string.
Oh Tim brought the Davey Miner, through him they swore he lied,
While blowing up himself and the chicken with a pound of dynamite.

So to scrape the wall for chicken, it wasn't easy work,
It wasn't easy to know which was chicken and which was Burke,
But they found a leg of chicken on a friendly blacksmith's head,
And a pair of everlasting heels upon my boots it made.