Eugowra Rocks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CC CCDD EEDD FFGG| It's all about bold Frank Gardiner with the devil in his eye | A |
| He said We've work before us lads we've got to do or die | A |
| So blacken up your faces before the dead of night | B |
| And its over by Eugowra Rocks we'll either fall or fight | B |
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| Chorus You can sing of Johnny Gilbert Dan Morgan and Ben Hall | C |
| But the bold and reckless Gardiner he's the boy to beat them all | C |
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| We'll stop the Orange escort with powder and with ball | C |
| We'll shoot the coach to pieces and we'll down the peelers all | C |
| We'll lift the diggers' money we'll collar all their gold | D |
| So mind your guns are killers now my comrades true and bold | D |
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| So now off go the rifles the battle has begun | E |
| The escort started running boys all in the setting sun | E |
| The robbers seized their plunder so saucy and so bold | D |
| And they're riding from Eugowra Rocks encumbered with their gold | D |
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| And as with savage laughter they left that fatal place | F |
| They cried We've struck bonanza boys we've won the steeplechase | F |
| And Gardiner their leader he shouted a loud Hooray | G |
| I think we've made our fortunes at Eugowra Rocks today | G |
Anonymous Oceania
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