The Broken-down Squatter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFDF D DFGF DHIJ KFLF F MDNDOPQP F PRSRDFTF FAir It's a fine hunting day | A |
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Come Stumpy old man we must shift while we can | B |
All our mates in the paddock are dead | C |
Let us wave our farewells to Glen Eva's sweet dells | D |
And the hills where your lordship was bred | C |
Together to roam from our drought stricken home | E |
It seems hard that such things have to be | F |
And its hard on a hogs when he's nought for a boss | D |
But a broken down squatter like me | F |
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Chorus | D |
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For the banks are all broken they say | D |
And the merchants are all up a tree | F |
When the bigwigs are brought to the Bankruptcy Court | G |
What chance for a squatter like me | F |
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No more shall we muster the river for fats | D |
Or spiel on the Fifteen mile plain | H |
Or rip through the scrub by the light of the moon | I |
Or see the old stockyard again | J |
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Leave the slip panels down it won't matter much now | K |
There are none but the crows left to see | F |
Perching gaunt in yon pine as though longing to dine | L |
On a broken down squatter like me | F |
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Chorus For the banks c | F |
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When the country was cursed with the drought at its worst | M |
And the cattle were dying in scores | D |
Though down on my luck I kept up my pluck | N |
Thinking justice might temper the laws | D |
But the farce has been played and the Government aid | O |
Ain't extended to squatters old son | P |
When my dollars were spent they doubled the rent | Q |
And resumed the best half of the run | P |
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Chorus For the banks c | F |
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'Twas done without reason for leaving the season | P |
No squatter could stand such a rub | R |
For it's useless to squat when the rents are so hot | S |
That one can't save the price of one's grub | R |
And there's not much to choose 'twixt the banks and the Jews | D |
Once a fellow gets put up a tree | F |
No odds what I feel there's no court of appeal | T |
For a broken down squatter like me | F |
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Chorus For the banks c | F |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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