Bold Jack Donahoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GCFF HHFF IIII FFFF JJFF| In Dublin town I was brought up in that city of great fame | A |
| My decent friends and parents they will tell to you the same | A |
| It was for the sake of five hundred pounds I was sent across the main | B |
| For seven long years in New South Wales to wear a convict's chain | B |
| Then come my hearties we'll roam the mountains high | C |
| Together we will plunder together we will die | C |
| We'll wander over mountains and we'll gallop over plains | D |
| For we scorn to live in slavery bound down in iron chains | D |
| I'd scarce been there twelve months or more upon the Australian shore | E |
| When I took to the highway as I'd oft times done before | E |
| There was me and Jacky Underwood and Webber and Webster too | F |
| These were the true associates of bold Jack Donahoo | F |
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| Now Donahoo was taken all for a notorious crime | G |
| And sentenced to be hanged upon the gallows tree so high | C |
| But when they came to Sydney gaol he left them in a stew | F |
| And when they came to call the roll they missed bold Donahoo | F |
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| As Donahoo made his escape to the bush he went straight way | H |
| The people they were all afraid to travel night or day | H |
| For every week in the newspapers there was published some thing new | F |
| Concerning this dauntless hero the bold Jack Donahoo | F |
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| As Donahoo was cruising one summer's afternoon | I |
| little was his notion his death was near so soon | I |
| When a sergeant of the horse police discharged his car a bine | I |
| And called aloud on Donahoo to fight or to resign | I |
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| Resign to you you cowardly dogs a thing I ne'er will do | F |
| For I'll fight this night with all my might cried bold Jack Donahoo | F |
| I'd rather roam these hills and dales like wolf or kangaroo | F |
| Than work one hour for Government cried bold Jack Donahoo | F |
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| He fought six rounds with the horse police until the fatal ball | J |
| Which pierced his heart and made him start caused Donahoo to fall | J |
| And as he closed his mournful eyes he bade this world Adieu | F |
| Saying Convicts all both large and small say prayers for Donahoo | F |
Banjo Paterson
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