The Labours of Herakles (Hercules)

Zeus had a son named Herakles By Alcmene (most faithful of spouses To Amphitryon, the king of Thebes) When he seduced her under hypnosis Hera sent the heebie-jeebies To unhinge the young man’s senses Causing him to kill his babies And commit other sundry offences The only way to lift this curse The Delphic oracle avers Is bind yourself to Eurystheus And do his will for a dozen years Eurystheus he set our hero 12 odd jobs, a fickle meld And so our courageous caballero Delved where demons and devils dwelled 'Strip the Nemean lion’s skin And make from it a nice handbag The Lernean hydra, please do in Bring back alive the Arcadian stag 'Likewise the Erymanthian boar The Augean stables need a good scrub Rout the Stymphalian birds to ensure They no longer look on humans as grub 'Capture for me the mad Cretan bull And the man-eating mares of Diomedes My daughter desires Hippolyta’s girdle (She’s queen of those Amazon army ladies) 'Corral the red oxen of Geryones Procure the gold apples of Hesperides Find Cerberus on his pile of dead bones And bring him unharmed back here from Hades' Herakles performed all of these tasks Many of which might stump us And if anyone anytime ever asks Was immortalised on Olympus