The Old Bullock Dray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE G HIJIKLFL MNCOLLAL PQRQSTRT AULURLRL RLMLVMLM FWRWXLML ALYLRZMZ RA2MA2ALEL| Oh the shearing is all over | A |
| And the wool is coming down | B |
| And I mean to get a wife boys | C |
| When I go up to town | B |
| Everything that has two legs | D |
| Represents itself in view | E |
| From the little paddy melon | F |
| To the bucking kangaroo | E |
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| CHORUS | G |
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| So it's roll up your blankets | H |
| And let's make a push | I |
| I'll take you up the country | J |
| And show you the bush | I |
| I'll be bound you won't get | K |
| Such a chance another day | L |
| So come and take possession | F |
| Of my old bullock dray | L |
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| Now I've saved up a good cheque | M |
| I mean to buy a team | N |
| And when I get a wife boys | C |
| I'll be all serene | O |
| For calling at the dep 't | L |
| They say there's no delay | L |
| To get an off sider | A |
| For the old bullock dray | L |
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| Oh we'll live like fighting cocks | P |
| For good living I'm your man | Q |
| We'll have leather jacks johnny cakes | R |
| And fritters in the pan | Q |
| Or if you'd like some fish | S |
| I'll catch you some soon | T |
| For we'll bob for barramundies | R |
| Round the banks of a lagoon | T |
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| Oh yes of beef and damper | A |
| I take care we have enough | U |
| And we'll boil in the bucket | L |
| Such a whopper of a duff | U |
| And our friends will dance | R |
| To the honour of the day | L |
| To the music of the bells | R |
| Around the old bullock dray | L |
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| Oh we'll have plenty girls | R |
| We must mind that | L |
| There'll be flash little Maggie | M |
| And buckjumping Pat | L |
| There'll be Stringy bark Joe | V |
| And Green hide Mike | M |
| Yes my Colonials just | L |
| As many as you like | M |
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| Now we'll stop all immigration | F |
| We won't need it any more | W |
| We'll be having young natives | R |
| Twins by the score | W |
| And I wonder what the devil | X |
| Jack Robertson would say | L |
| If he saw us promenading | M |
| Round the old bullock dray | L |
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| Oh it's time I had an answer | A |
| If there's one to be had | L |
| I wouldn't treat that steer | Y |
| In the body half as bad | L |
| But he takes as much notice | R |
| Of me upon my soul | Z |
| As that old blue stag | M |
| Off side in the pole | Z |
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| Oh to tell a lot of lies | R |
| You know it is a sin | A2 |
| But I'll go up country | M |
| And marry a black gin | A2 |
| Oh Baal gammon white feller | A |
| This is what she'll say | L |
| Budgery you | E |
| And your old bullock dray | L |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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