'shouting' For A Camel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBC DEDEC AFAF GHGH C GGGGGC| It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator | A |
| Who was going down the township just to make a bit o' chink | B |
| Went off to hire a camel from a camel propagator | A |
| And the Afghan said he'd lend it if he'd stand the beast a drink | B |
| Yes the only price he asked him was to stand the beast a drink | B |
| He was cheap very cheap as the dromedaries go | C |
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| So the mining speculator made the bargain proudly thinking | D |
| He had bested old Mahomet he had done him in the eye | E |
| Then he clambered on the camel and the while the beast was drinking | D |
| He explained with satisfaction to the miners standing by | E |
| That 'twas cheap very cheap as the dromedaries go | C |
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| But the camel kept on drinking and he filled his hold with water | A |
| And the more he had inside him yet the more he seemed to need | F |
| For he drank it by the gallon and his girths grew taut and tauter | A |
| And the miners muttered softly 'Yes he's very dry indeed | F |
| But he's cheap very cheap as dromedaries go ' | - |
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| So he drank up twenty buckets it was weird to watch him suck it | G |
| And the market price for water was per bucket half a crown | H |
| Till the speculator stopped him saying 'Not another busket | G |
| If I give him any more there'll be a famine in the town | H |
| Take him back to old Mahomet and I'll tramp it through the town ' | - |
| He was cheap very cheap as the speculators go | C |
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| There's a moral to this story in your hat you ought to paste it | G |
| Be careful whom you shout for when a camel is about | G |
| And there's plenty human camels who before they'll see you waste it | G |
| Will drink up all you pay for if you're fool enough to shout | G |
| If you chance to strike a camel when you're fool enough to shout | G |
| You'll be cheap very cheap as the speculators go | C |
Banjo Paterson
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