The Cowboy's Homing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBCC BBDD EEFF| Bill's home ag'in from Europe where he featured with a show | A |
| But he don't talk none about it his words jest seem to flow | A |
| On the subject of home comin' and this glorious Southwest land | B |
| Which talk to all us people is some hard to onderstand | B |
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| The stage driver was tellin' when he hit the sagebrush flat | B |
| That's south of Cactus Center Bill jest wept behind his hat | B |
| And he nearly went plum dotty his joy was so intense | C |
| At the prairie dogs a scoldin' behind each wire fence | C |
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| When the driver stopped at Arid fer a meal and fer a rest | B |
| Bill pinned a sprig of cactus like a flower on his vest | B |
| He couldn't eat fer lookin' at that endless dreary plain | D |
| I guess it makes men homesick fer to cross the ragin' main | D |
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| So we let Bill kinder babble 'bout these things we know so well | E |
| And we're all a waitin' patient for the glories he will tell | E |
| In a week or two he'll see things like he hadn't been away | F |
| But the homin' joy has got him on the locoed list to day | F |
Arthur Chapman
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