The Overlander Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEE F GEHE IJKJ LMLM NONPQEQE MRMRSETE UVMW XEYE ZMA2MB2EME UC2UC2EEEEThere's a trade you all know well | A |
It's bringing cattle over | B |
I'll tell you all about the time | C |
When I became a drover | B |
I made up my mind to try the spec | D |
To the Clarence I did wander | B |
And bought a mob of duffers there | E |
To begin as an overlander | E |
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Chorus | F |
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Pass the wine cup round my boys | G |
Don't let the bottle stand there | E |
For to night we'll drink the health | H |
Of every overlander | E |
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Next morning counted the cattle | I |
Saw the outfit ready to start | J |
Saw all the lads well mounted | K |
And their swags put in a cart | J |
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All kinds of men I had | L |
From France Germany and Flanders | M |
Lawyers doctors good and bad | L |
In the mob of overlanders | M |
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Next morning I set out | N |
When the grass was green and young | O |
And they swore they'd break my snout | N |
If I did not move along | P |
I said You're very hard | Q |
Take care don't raise my dander | E |
For I'm a regular knowing card | Q |
The Queensland overlander | E |
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'Tis true we pay no license | M |
And our run is rather large | R |
'Tis not often they can catch us | M |
So they cannot make a charge | R |
They think we live on store beef | S |
But no I'm not a gander | E |
When a good fat stranger joins the mob | T |
He'll do says the overlander | E |
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One day a squatter rode up | U |
Says he You're on my run | V |
I've got two boys as witnesses | M |
Consider your stock in pound | W |
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I tried to coax then bounce him | X |
But my tin I had to squander | E |
For he put threepence a head | Y |
On the mob of the overlander | E |
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The pretty girls in Brisbane | Z |
Were hanging out their duds | M |
I wished to have a chat with them | A2 |
So steered straight for the tubs | M |
Some dirty urchins saw me | B2 |
And soon they raised my dander | E |
Crying Mother quick take in the clothes | M |
Here comes an overlander | E |
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In town we drain the wine cup | U |
And go to see the play | C2 |
And never think to be hard up | U |
For how to pass the day | C2 |
Each has a sweetheart there | E |
Dressed out in all her grandeur | E |
Dark eyes and jet black flowing hair | E |
She's a plum says the overlander | E |
Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
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