Bottle 'o' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EDDFFD GHGHIDIDHJHJKDKD| I ain't the kind of bloke as takes to any steady job | A |
| I drives me bottle cart around the town | B |
| A bloke what keeps 'is eyes about can always make a bob | A |
| I couldn't bear to graft for every brown | B |
| There's lots of handy things about in everybody's yard | C |
| There's cocks and hens a runnin' to an' fro | D |
| And little dogs what comes and barks we take 'em off their guard | C |
| And we puts 'em with the Empty Bottle O | D |
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| Chorus | E |
| So it's any Empty bottles Any empty bottle O | D |
| You can hear us round for half a mile or so | D |
| And you'll see the women rushing | F |
| To take in the Monday's washing | F |
| When they 'ear us crying Empty Bottle O | D |
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| I'm driving down by Wexford street and up a winder goes | G |
| A girl sticks out 'er 'ead and looks at me | H |
| An all right tart with ginger 'air and freckles on 'er nose | G |
| I stops the cart and walks across to see | H |
| There ain't no bottles 'ere says she since father took the pledge | I |
| No bottles 'ere says I I'd like to know | D |
| What right 'ave you to stick your 'ead outside the winder ledge | I |
| If you 'aven't got no Empty Bottle O | D |
| I sometimes gives the 'orse a spell and then the push and me | H |
| We takes a little trip to Chowder Bay | J |
| Oh ain't it nice the 'ole day long a gazin' at the sea | H |
| And a hidin' of the tanglefoot away | J |
| But when the booze gits 'old of us and fellows starts to scrap | K |
| There's some what likes blue metal for to throw | D |
| But as for me I always says for layin' out a trap | K |
| There's nothing like an Empty Bottle O | D |
Banjo Paterson
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