Botany Bay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFEF AGHG EICI EFJF KLKL MFMF| Farewell to old England for ever | A |
| Farewell to my rum culls as well | B |
| Farewell to the well known Old Bailey | C |
| Where I used for to cut such a swell | B |
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| Chorus | D |
| Singing too ral li ooral li addity | E |
| Singing too ral li ooral li ay | F |
| Singing too ral li ooral li addity | E |
| Singing too ral li ooral li ay | F |
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| There's the captain as is our commander | A |
| There's the bo'sun and all the ship's crew | G |
| There's the first and the second class passengers | H |
| Knows what we poor convicts goes through | G |
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| 'Tain't leaving old England we care about | E |
| 'Tain't cos we mispells wot we knows | I |
| But because we all light fingered gentry | C |
| Hops round with a log on our toes | I |
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| For fourteen long years I have ser vi ed | E |
| And for fourteen long years and a day | F |
| For meeting a bloke in the area | J |
| And sneaking his ticker away | F |
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| Oh had I the wings of a turtle dove | K |
| I'd soar on my pinions so high | L |
| Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love | K |
| And in her sweet presence I'd die | L |
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| Now all my young Dook ies and Duch ess es | M |
| Take warning from what I've to say | F |
| Mind all is your own as you touch es es | M |
| Or you'll meet us in Botony Bay | F |
Anonymous Oceania
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