The Rum Parade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE G CBHBFIJIFEHE KELEMEHE| Now ye gallant Sydney boys who have left your household joys | A |
| To march across the sea in search of glory | B |
| I am very much afraid that you do not love parade | C |
| But the rum parade is quite another story | B |
| For the influenza came and to spoil its little game | D |
| They ordered us to drink a curious mixture | E |
| Though at first it frightened some when we found it mostly rum | F |
| Parade became a very pleasant fixture | E |
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| Chorus | G |
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| So it's forward the Brigade if they'll hold a rum parade | C |
| At Pretoria there's nothing to alarm ye | B |
| And it's easy to be seen if they leave the quinine | H |
| Ye'll be there before the blessed British Army | B |
| Then a corporal he come and he said I drank the rum | F |
| But the quinine never reached its destination | I |
| For begob he up and swored that I threw it overboard | J |
| Sure my heart was filled with grief and indignation | I |
| For I'm different to some I prefer quinine to rum | F |
| And I only take the rum just as a favour | E |
| And it's easy to be seen I'm so fond of the quinine | H |
| That I keep it lest the rum should spoil its flavour | E |
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| When we get to Africay we'll be landed straight away | K |
| And quartered with the troops of Queen Victoria | E |
| And we hope they'll understand that the moment that we land | L |
| We are ready for a march upon Pretoria | E |
| And we'll pay off all the scores on old Kruger and his Boers | M |
| And just to prove our manners aren't a failure | E |
| And to show we are not mean shure we'll give them the quinine | H |
| And drink the rum in honour of Australia | E |
Banjo Paterson
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