The Ballad Of Cockatoo Dock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBC DDD EEE FFF GGG HII JJJ KKK LLL MMM| Of all the docks upon the blue | A |
| There was no dockyard old or new | A |
| To touch the dock at Cockatoo | A |
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| Of all the ministerial clan | B |
| There was no nicer worthier man | B |
| Than Admiral O'Sullivan | C |
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| Of course we mean E W | - |
| O'Sullivan the hero who | - |
| Controlled the dock at Cockatoo | - |
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| To workmen he explained his views | D |
| You need not toil unless you choose | D |
| Your only work is drawing screws | D |
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| And sometimes to their great surprise | E |
| When votes of censure filled the skies | E |
| He used to give them all a rise | E |
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| What odds about a pound or two | - |
| Exclaimed the great E W | - |
| O'Sullivan at Cockatoo | - |
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| The dockyard superintendent he | F |
| Was not at all what he should be | F |
| He sneered at all this sympathy | F |
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| So when he gave a man the sack | G |
| O'Sullivan got on his track | G |
| And straightway went and fetched him back | G |
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| And with a sympathetic tear | H |
| He'd say How dare you interfere | I |
| You most misguided engineer | I |
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| Your sordid manners please amend | J |
| No man can possibly offend | J |
| Who has a Member for a friend | J |
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| With euchre or a friendly rub | K |
| And whiskey from the nearest 'pub' | K |
| We'll make the dockyard like a club | K |
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| Heave ho my hearties play away | L |
| We'll do no weary work today | L |
| What odds the public has to pay | L |
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| And if the public should complain | M |
| I'll go to Broken Hill by train | M |
| To watch McCarthy making rain | M |
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| And there with nothing else to do | - |
| No doubt the great E W | - |
| Will straightway raise McCarthy's screw | - |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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