The Old Bullock Dray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKFK LMCNIKAK OPQPRSQS ATUTQKQK QVIVWLXL FYQYZKLK AA2B2A2QC2LC2 QD2ID2AKEK

Oh the shearing is all overA
And the wool is coming downB
And I mean to get a wife boysC
When I go up to townB
Everything that has two legsD
Represents itself in viewE
From the little paddy melonF
To the bucking kangarooE
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So it's roll up your blanketsG
And let's make a pushH
I'll take you up the countryI
And show you the bushH
I'll be bound you won't getJ
Such a chance another dayK
So come and take possessionF
Of my old bullock drayK
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Now I've saved up a good chequeL
I mean to buy a teamM
And when I get a wife boysC
I'll be all sereneN
For calling at the dep tI
They say there's no delayK
To get an off siderA
For the old bullock drayK
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Oh we'll live like fighting cocksO
For good living I'm your manP
We'll have leather jacks johnny cakesQ
And fritters in the panP
Or if you'd like some fishR
I'll catch you some soonS
For we'll bob for barramundiesQ
Round the banks of a lagoonS
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Oh yes of beef and damperA
I take care we have enoughT
And we'll boil in the bucketU
Such a whopper of a duffT
And our friends will danceQ
To the honour of the dayK
To the music of the bellsQ
Around the old bullock drayK
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Oh we'll have plenty girlsQ
We must mind thatV
There'll be flash little MaggieI
And buckjumping PatV
There'll be Stringy bark JoeW
And Green hide MikeL
Yes my Colonials justX
As many as you likeL
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Now we'll stop all immigrationF
We won't need it any moreY
We'll be having young nativesQ
Twins by the scoreY
And I wonder what the devilZ
Jack Robertson would sayK
If he saw us promenadingL
Round the old bullock drayK
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Oh it's time I had an answerA
If there's one to be hadA2
I wouldn't treat that steerB2
In the body half as badA2
But he takes as much noticeQ
Of me upon my soulC2
As that old blue stagL
Off side in the poleC2
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Oh to tell a lot of liesQ
You know it is a sinD2
But I'll go up countryI
And marry a black ginD2
Oh Baal gammon white fellerA
This is what she'll sayK
Budgery youE
And your old bullock drayK

Banjo Paterson



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