Cackle, Cackle, Cackle
By: Bagnal
Written by: Bagnal

This Version:
  • Cackle, Cackle, Cackle
 
Lyrics:
My name is Peter Simple and I give you all a warning
That I'm an early riser for I wake when day is dawning
At four o'clock, I leave my bed in dreadful agitation
Awakened very early by this farmyard conversation

Oh! Cackle cackle cackle at morning's early dawning
Cock-a-doodle-doo, my friends, give us all a warning
Fresh new laid eggs for breakfast every morning
Cluck cluck cluck, cluck cluck cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo

Bright Chanticleer proclaims the morn, no doubt that's very right
I wish he'd not proclaim the hour so near the dead of night
He is the best alarm, he insures a fellow's waking
I wish he'd not begin before the early morn is breaking

Oh! Cackle cackle cackle at morning's early dawning
Cock-a-doodle-doo, my friends, give us all a warning
Fresh new laid eggs for breakfast every morning
Cluck cluck cluck, cluck cluck cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo

I go to bed at tea time, glad to rest my weary legs
And my revenge up on the fowls is eating up their eggs
I have, perchance, some pleasant dream of fairies without number
All singing sweetly to me when I'm wakened from my slumber

Oh! Cackle cackle cackle at morning's early dawning
Cock-a-doodle-doo, my friends, give us all a warning
Fresh new laid eggs for breakfast every morning
Cluck cluck cluck, cluck cluck cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo

I wish they'd let me lie abed, but then, you see, they won't
Oh! Cruel cock-a-doodle-doo, please cock-a-doodle-don't
I've not a doubt my feathered friends that good are your intentions
I wish though, you'd go somewhere else, to hold your hen convention