Paddy Malone In Australia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCBBD EBFBBDBBBB GHIJCBCBDB BKBLBDMBBB MBMNCCB CBDB ABABEBJBDDOch my name's Pat Malone and I'm from Tipperary | A |
Sure I don't know it now I'm so bothered Ohone | B |
And the gals that I danced with light hearted and airy | A |
It's scarcely they'd notice poor Paddy Malone | B |
'Tis twelve months or more since our ship she cast anchor | C |
In happy Australia the Emigrant's home | D |
And from that day to this there's been nothing but canker | C |
And grafe and vexation for Paddy Malone | B |
Oh Paddy Malone Oh Paddy Ohone | B |
Bad luck to the agent that coaxed ye to roam | D |
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Wid a man called a squatter I soon got a place sure | E |
He'd a beard like a goat and such whiskers Ohone | B |
And he said as he peeped through the hair on his faitures | F |
That he liked the appearance of Paddy Malone | B |
Wid him I agreed to go up to his station | B |
Saying abroad in the bush you'll find yourself at home | D |
I liked his proposal and 'out hesitation | B |
Signed my name wid a X that spelt Paddy Malone | B |
Oh Paddy Malone you're no scholard Ohone | B |
Sure I made a cris crass that spelt Paddy Malone | B |
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A herding my sheep in the bush as they call it | G |
It was no bush at all but a mighty great wood | H |
Wid all the big trees that were small bushes one time | I |
A long time ago faith I 'spose 'fore the flood | J |
To find out this big bush one day I went further | C |
The trees grew so thick that I couldn't Ohone | B |
I tried to go back then but that I found harder | C |
And bothered and lost was poor Paddy Malone | B |
Oh Paddy Malone through the bush he did roam | D |
What a Babe in the Wood was poor Paddy Malone | B |
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I was soon overcome sure wid grafe and vexation | B |
And camped you must know by the side of a log | K |
I was found the next day by a man from the station | B |
For I coo ey'd and roared like a bull in a bog | L |
The man said to me Arrah Pat where's the sheep now | B |
Says I I dunno barring one here at home | D |
And the master began and kicked up a big row too | M |
And swore he'd stop the wages of Paddy Malone | B |
Arrah Paddy Malone you're no shepherd Ohone | B |
We'll try you with bullocks now Paddy Malone | B |
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To see me dressed out with my team and my dray too | M |
Wid a whip like a flail and such gaiters Ohone | B |
But the bullocks as they eyed me they seemed for to say too | M |
You may do your best Paddy we're blest if we go | N |
Gee whoa Redman come hither Damper | C |
Hoot Magpie Gee Blackbird Come hither | C |
Whalebone | B |
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But the brutes turned round sharp and away they did scamper | C |
And heels over head turned poor Paddy Malone | B |
Oh Paddy Malone you've seen some bulls at home | D |
But the bulls of Australia cows Paddy Malone | B |
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I was found the next day where the brutes they did throw me | A |
By a man passing by upon hearing me groan | B |
And wiping the mud from my face that he knew me | A |
Says he Your name's Paddy Yes Paddy Malone | B |
I thin says to him You're an angel sent down sure | E |
No faith but I'm not but a friend of your own | B |
And by his persuasion for home then I started | J |
And you now see before you poor Paddy Malone | B |
Arrah Paddy Malone you are now safe at home | D |
Bad luck to the agent that coaxed ye to roam | D |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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