Jimmy Dooley's Army Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDCEECFFC G HHCIIC JJGKKGLLJMMJ G HHJIIJ| A Political Ballad by our Bolshevik Bard | A |
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| There's a dashin' sort of boy | B |
| Which they call his Party's Joy | B |
| And his smile that won't come off would quite disarm ye | C |
| And he played the leadin' hand | D |
| In the Helter Skelter Band | D |
| Known as Jimmy Dooley's Circulating Army | C |
| When the rank and file they found | E |
| They were marchin' round and round | E |
| They one and all began to act unruly | C |
| And the letter that he wrote | F |
| Sure it got the Labor goat | F |
| So we set ourselves to deal with Captain Dooley | C |
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| Chorus | G |
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| Whill il loo High Ho | H |
| We'll all be there you know | H |
| The repartees and ructions they will charm ye | C |
| And we'll see which we prefer | I |
| Is it Dooley or McGirr | I |
| To take command of Jimmy Dooley's Army | C |
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| When we're marchin' to the poll | J |
| And we're under his control | J |
| We sometimes feel a trifle unsalubrious | G |
| For by one and all 'twas said | K |
| That if our objective's Red | K |
| To call it claret coloured makes us dubious | G |
| Sure the Fat Men one fine day | L |
| They chanced to come our way | L |
| And we thought that we should bate them well and trooly | J |
| But we let them pass us by | M |
| And not half a brick did fly | M |
| 'Twas then we tore our tickets up on Dooley | J |
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| Chorus | G |
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| Whill il loo High Ho | H |
| We'll all be there you know | H |
| The repartees and ructions they will charm ye | J |
| And we'll see which we prefer | I |
| Is it Dooley or McGirr | I |
| To take command of Jimmy Dooley's Army | J |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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