Mustering Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC D AB EEFF G HHIC H JJKK H HHLL H MMNN H ONPP H QQRR H SSHH H TTII H UUVV H| Air So Early in the Morning | A |
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| The boss last night in the hut did say | B |
| We start to muster at break of day | B |
| So be up first thing and don't be slow | C |
| Saddle your horses and off you go | C |
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| Chorus | D |
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| So early in the morning so early in the morning | A |
| So early in the morning before the break of day | B |
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| Such a night in the yard there never was seen | E |
| The horses were fat and the grass was green | E |
| Bursting of girths and slipping of packs | F |
| As the stockmen saddled the fastest hacks | F |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | G |
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| Across the plain we jog along | H |
| Over gully swamp and billabong | H |
| We drop on a mob pretty lively too | I |
| We round 'em up and give 'em a slue | C |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| Now the scrub grows thick and the cattle are wild | J |
| A regular caution to this 'ere child | J |
| A new chum man on an old chum horse | K |
| Who sails through the scrub as a matter of course | K |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| I was close up stuck in a rotten bog | H |
| I got a buster jumping a log | H |
| I found this scouting rather hot | L |
| So I joined the niggers with the lot we'd got | L |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| A long haired shepherd we chanced to meet | M |
| With a water bag billy and dog complete | M |
| He came too close to a knocked up steer | N |
| Who up a sapling made him clear | N |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| Now on every side we faintly hear | O |
| The crack of the stockwhip drawing near | N |
| To the camp the cattle soon converge | P |
| As from the thick scrub they emerge | P |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| We hastily comfort the inner man | Q |
| With the warm contents of the billy can | Q |
| The beef and damper are passed about | R |
| Before we tackle the cutting out | R |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| We're at it now that bally calf | S |
| Would surely make a sick man laugh | S |
| The silly fool can't take a joke | H |
| I hope some day in the drought he'll croak | H |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| We've 'em now the cows and calves | T |
| Things here are never done by halves | T |
| Strangers workers and milkers too | I |
| Of scrubbers also not a few | I |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
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| It's getting late we'd better push | U |
| 'Tis a good long way across the bush | U |
| And the mob to drive are middling hard | V |
| I do not think we'll reach the yard | V |
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| Chorus So early in the morning c | H |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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