The Old-timer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC| He showed up in the springtime when the geese began to honk | A |
| He signed up with the outfit and we fattened up his bronk | A |
| His chaps were old and tattered but he never seemed to mind | B |
| 'Cause for worryin' and frettin' he had never been designed | B |
| He's the type of cattle puncher that has vanished now of course | C |
| With his hundred dollar saddle on his twenty dollar horse | C |
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| He never seemed to bother over fortune's ups and downs | D |
| And he never quit his singin' when the gang was full of frowns | D |
| He would lose his roundup money in an hour of swift play | E |
| But he never seemed discouraged when he ambled on his way | E |
| He would hit the trail a singin' and his smile was out full force | C |
| Though he'd lost his fancy saddle and he didn't have a horse | C |
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| I have wondered where he wanders in these late degenerate years | F |
| When there are no boundless ranges and there are no long horn steers | F |
| But I'll warrant he is cheerful though unfriendly is the trail | G |
| And his cigarette is flowing though his grub supply may fail | G |
| For he had life's happy secret he had traced it to the source | C |
| In his hundred dollar saddle on his twenty dollar horse | C |
Arthur Chapman
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