Now Listen To Me And I'll Tell You My Views Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBB EEFFGGBBHHBB| Now listen to me and I'll tell you my views concerning the African war | A |
| And the man who upholds any different views the same is a ritten Pro Boer | A |
| Though I'm getting a little bit doubtful myself as it drags on week after week | B |
| But it's better not ask any questions at all let us silence all doubts with a shriek | B |
| And first let us shriek the unstinted abuse that the Tory Press prefer | C |
| De Wet is a madman and Steyn is a liar and Kruger a pitiful cur | C |
| Though I think if Oom Paul as old as he is were to walk down the Strand with his gun | D |
| A lot of these heroes would hide in the sewers or take to their heels and run | D |
| For Paul he has fought like a man in his day but now that he's feeble and weak | B |
| And tired and lonely and old and grey of course it's quite safe to shriek | B |
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| And next let us join in the bloodthirsty shriek Hooray for Lord Kitchener's bag | E |
| For the fireman's torch and the hangman's cord they are hung on the English Flag | E |
| In the front of our brave old army Whoop the farmhouse blazes bright | F |
| And the women weep and their children die how dare they presume to fight | F |
| For none of them dress in a uniform the same as by rights they ought | G |
| They're fighting in rags and in naked feet like Wallace's Scotchmen fought | G |
| And they clothe themselves from our captured troops and they're catching them every week | B |
| And they don't hand them and the shame is ours but we cover the shame with a shriek | B |
| And lastly we'll shriek the political shriek as we sit in the dark and doubt | H |
| Where the Birmingham Judas led us in and there's no one to lead us out | H |
| And Rosebery whom we depended upon Would only the Oracle speak | B |
| You go to the Grocers says he for your laws By Heavens it's time to shriek | B |
Banjo Paterson
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