The Old Bullock Dray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKFK LMCNIKAK OPQPRSQS ATUTQKQK QVIVWLXL FYQYZKLK AA2B2A2QC2LC2 QD2ID2AKEKOh the shearing is all over | A |
And the wool is coming down | B |
And I mean to get a wife boys | C |
When I go up to town | B |
Everything that has two legs | D |
Represents itself in view | E |
From the little paddy melon | F |
To the bucking kangaroo | E |
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So it's roll up your blankets | G |
And let's make a push | H |
I'll take you up the country | I |
And show you the bush | H |
I'll be bound you won't get | J |
Such a chance another day | K |
So come and take possession | F |
Of my old bullock dray | K |
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Now I've saved up a good cheque | L |
I mean to buy a team | M |
And when I get a wife boys | C |
I'll be all serene | N |
For calling at the dep t | I |
They say there's no delay | K |
To get an off sider | A |
For the old bullock dray | K |
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Oh we'll live like fighting cocks | O |
For good living I'm your man | P |
We'll have leather jacks johnny cakes | Q |
And fritters in the pan | P |
Or if you'd like some fish | R |
I'll catch you some soon | S |
For we'll bob for barramundies | Q |
Round the banks of a lagoon | S |
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Oh yes of beef and damper | A |
I take care we have enough | T |
And we'll boil in the bucket | U |
Such a whopper of a duff | T |
And our friends will dance | Q |
To the honour of the day | K |
To the music of the bells | Q |
Around the old bullock dray | K |
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Oh we'll have plenty girls | Q |
We must mind that | V |
There'll be flash little Maggie | I |
And buckjumping Pat | V |
There'll be Stringy bark Joe | W |
And Green hide Mike | L |
Yes my Colonials just | X |
As many as you like | L |
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Now we'll stop all immigration | F |
We won't need it any more | Y |
We'll be having young natives | Q |
Twins by the score | Y |
And I wonder what the devil | Z |
Jack Robertson would say | K |
If he saw us promenading | L |
Round the old bullock dray | K |
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Oh it's time I had an answer | A |
If there's one to be had | A2 |
I wouldn't treat that steer | B2 |
In the body half as bad | A2 |
But he takes as much notice | Q |
Of me upon my soul | C2 |
As that old blue stag | L |
Off side in the pole | C2 |
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Oh to tell a lot of lies | Q |
You know it is a sin | D2 |
But I'll go up country | I |
And marry a black gin | D2 |
Oh Baal gammon white feller | A |
This is what she'll say | K |
Budgery you | E |
And your old bullock dray | K |
Banjo Paterson
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