For many years, the only version I knew of was sung by Brownan McGee back in the 70s. However, when I dug it out today, I found that I "remember" an entirely different start to the song—no idea where I picked it up:

  X:3
  T:The Barnyard Song
  S:Artful Codger
  M:2/2
  L:1/4
  Q:1/2=100
  K:C
   G, | C> E G E/ E/ | G A C z/ G/ |
  w: I had a bird and the bird pleased me. I
   c G A G/ G/ | E C D z/ C/ |
  w: fed my bird un-der yon-der tree. The
   C C E/ C/ D | C3 z | z4 ||
  w: bird went fid-dle-i-fee.
  %
  % Ending of later verses:
  [M:3/2] C C E z E z/ C/ | C C E/ E/ G E/ E/ G/ C/ |
  w: duck when quack quack, the hen went chim-my chack, chim-my chuck, the
  C C E3 z/ C/ | [M:2/2][L:1/4] C C E/ C/ D | C3 z ||
  w: cat went meow, the bird went fid-dle-i-fee.

Brownan McGee's version was mostly like Sorcha's tune but with my rhythm and "fiddle-i-fee" jog, and all the sounds were amusingly "naturalistic". His animals were (in final order) turkey, goose, duck, dog, cat and bird; the bird sound he whistled (an octave higher than I've written). I thought he sang more verses, since in my mind's ear I hear the wife's plaintive "Honey, honey," but it's not on my recording.