"My Mother, now 96, used to recite Delany's Chicken to us some 90 years ago"
We recorded the version I gave from an elderly Irish singer back in the 1980s in London - It's the only version I've come across, though I did manage to trace some information on it for a note I have written for it.
Our recording is due to go up on line on the Clare County Library website in the next couple of months, along with another 4000 songs from County Clare (West of Ireland)
Jim Carroll

This is the Note to it - would appreciate any further information, particularly the nationality of Sweeney and Barrett (English or Irish?).

"*** Davy Miner – Miner's lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
This music hall song was composed in 1896 by Lester Barrett and P. Sweeney; Barrett wrote a similar piece, 'Hooligan's Mule', around the same time. Songs such as this, of creatures possessing wonderful attributes, abound in the song tradition, among the most popular being 'The Herring', 'The Derby Ram' and 'The Wonderful Crocodile'.
Mikey's seems to be the only recorded version of this from a traditional singer."