The Duties Of An Aide-de-camp Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Oh some folk think vice royalty is festive and hilarious	A
The duties of an A D C are manifold and various	A
So listen whilst I tell in song	B
The duties of an aide de cong	B
Whatsoever betide	C
To the Governor's side	C
We must stick or the public would eat him	D
For each bounder we see	E
Says Just introduce me	E
To His Lordship I'm anxious to meet him	D
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Then they grab at his paw	F
And they chatter and jaw	F
Till they'd talk him to death if we'd let 'em	G
And the folk he has met	H
They are all in a fret	H
Just for fear he might chance to forget 'em	G
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When some local King Billy	E
Is talking him silly	E
Or the pound keeper's wife has waylaid him	D
From folks of that stamp	I
When he has to decamp	I
We're his aides to decamp so we aid him	D
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Then some feminine beauty	E
Will come and salute ye	E
She may be a Miss or a Madam	G
Or a man comes in view	J
Bails you up How de do	J
And you don't know the fellow from Adam	G
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But you've got to keep sweet	K
With each man that you meet	K
And a trifle like this mustn't bar you	J
So you clutch at his fin	L
And you say with a grin	L
Oh delighted to see you how are you	J
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Then we do country shows	M
Where some prize taker blows	M
Of his pig a great vast forty stoner	N
See my Lord ain't he fine	O
How is that for a swine	O
When it isn't a patch on its owner	N
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We fix up the dinners	P
For parsons and sinners	P
And lawyers and bishops and showmen	O
And a judge of the court	Q
We put next to a sport	Q
And an Orangeman next to a Roman	O
	-
We send invitations	R
To all celebrations	R
Some Nobody's presence entreating	B
And the old folks of all	S
We invite to a ball	S
And the young to a grandmothers' meeting	B
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And when we go dancing	B
Like cart horses prancing	B
We plunge where the people are thickenkn'	O
And each gay local swell	T
Thinks it's off to dance well	T
So he copies our style ain't it sickenin'	O
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Then at banquets we dine	O
And swig cheap nasty wine	O
But the poor aide de camp mustn't funk it	U
And they call it champagne	O
But we're free to maintain	O
That he feels real pain when he's drunk it	U
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Then our horses bestriding	B
We go out a riding	B
Lest our health by confinement we'd injure	N
You can notice the glare	V
Of the Governor's hair	V
When the little boys say Go it Ginger	N
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Then some wandering lords	W
They so often are frauds	X
This out of way country invading	B
If a man dresses well	T
And behaves like a swell	T
Then he's somebody's cook masquerading	B
	-
But an out an out ass	Y
With a thirst for the glass	Y
And the symptoms of drink on his boko	B
Who is perpetually	E
Pursuing the ballet	Z
He is always the true Orinoco	B
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We must slave with our quills	Y
Keep the cash pay the bills	Y
Keep account of the liquor and victuals	Y
So I think you'll agree	E
That the gay A D C	E
Has a life that's not all beer and skittles	Y

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