The Donkey Serenade - Artie Shaw

Oh, well, I bought me a donkey, about four foot tall To plough my cotton in the early fall He's runnin' around, it was an awful sin I had to build a fence to keep my donkey in I rigged up a wire with a battery charge To keep my donkey from a-running at large Inside this bin I turned him loose Thrilled by volts of electrified juice Well, which way did my donkey go If you see him let me know I haven't seen my donkey since He backed into that electrified fence Now, the first time he backed up against it He threw back his ears and he had a fit He brayed real loud and he hit high gear He jumped up into the stratosphere I just got word from Albuquerque A donkey up there was looking for work He's my donkey and his name is Jack Oh, how I wish he'd come on back Well, which way did my donkey go If you see him let me know I haven't seen my donkey since He backed into that electrified fence Now, more word came from Palomar A man up there was a-watching the star While looking through his telescope He nearly had himself a stroke He saw something riding up the rainbow trail With two long ears and a puckered up tail The thing he saw when he 'firmed the states Was a donkey heading for the pearly gates Well, which way did my donkey go If you see him let me know I haven't seen my donkey since He backed into that electrified fence

Down the road, came a tired little donkey Much he was loaded 'till his head hung down Up on the back, so, heavy sit a big man Singin' such a sad song as he rode into town And the man, the man sing to the donkey But he sing such a sad song, and the guitar he broke The donkey stop, the man he reach to get a big jug Him and the donkey take a sip o' the drink Down the road, oh, the dancing donkey Head swingin' so high, all the pain now gone The man he sing, some song was a gay song And the little donkey kept a-dancin' on Way down the road was the man and the donkey So good feel the donkey, so gay, was the man How plain when the wind blow was the sound of the gay song When the man and the donkey kept a-movin' on down the road