Bill Bailey Old Mac Donald (in the style of Tom Waits)

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Old MacDonald, sick of the farm Wants a new life, a new place to go But if you strip away the consonants from reinvention, You get EIEIO. Old MacDonald tried to give up the booze Should ve done this a long time ago Suck out the vowels of best intentions, You hear EIEIO. No more echoes on the farm No more duck sounds in the air There s a quackquack But there s no quackquack there. Drunk on the insurance money from torching the farm, Old MacDonald gets a tattoo. It s there on his arm amongst the skulls and the livestock, It s EIEIO.