A Ballad Apout De Rowdies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACBAB BDABCCAC EAFAACGH CHBIABCB BBBBBJAC AFKFABKB| De moon shines ofer de cloudlens | A |
| Und de cloudts plow ofer de sea | A |
| Und I vent to Coney Island | B |
| Und I took mein Schatz mit me | A |
| Mein Schatz Katrina Bauer | C |
| I gife her mein heart und vortdt | B |
| Boot ve tidn't know vot beoples | A |
| De Dampfsschiff hafe cot on poard | B |
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| De preeze plowed cool und bleasant | B |
| We looket at de town | D |
| Mit sonn light on de shdeebles | A |
| Und wetter fanes doornin' round | B |
| Ve sat on de deck in a gorner | C |
| Und dropled nopody dere | C |
| Vhen all aroundt oos de rowdies | A |
| Peginned to plackguard und schvear | C |
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| A voman mit a papy | E |
| Vos sittin' in de blace | A |
| Von tooket a chew tobacco | F |
| Und trowed it indo her vace | A |
| De voman got coonvulshons | A |
| De papy pegin to gry | C |
| Und de rowdies shkreemed out a laffin | G |
| Und saidt dat de fun was high | H |
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| Pimepy ve become some hoonger | C |
| Katrina Bauer und I | H |
| I openet de lit of mine pasket | B |
| Und pringed out a cherry bie | I |
| A cherry kooken mit pretzels | A |
| How goot Katrina said | B |
| Vhen a rowdy snatched it from her | C |
| Und preaked it ofer mine het | B |
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| I dells him he pe a plackguart | B |
| I gifed him a biece my mind | B |
| I vouldt saidt it pefore a tousand | B |
| Mit der teufel himself pehind | B |
| Den he knocks me down mit a sloong shot | B |
| Und peats me plack and plue | J |
| Und de plackguards kick me | A |
| Dill I vainted und dat ish drue | C |
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| De rich American beoples | A |
| Don't know how de rowdies shtrike | F |
| Der poor hardtworkin' Sharman | K |
| He knows it more ash he like | F |
| If de Deutsche speakers und bapers | A |
| Are somedimes too hard on dis land | B |
| Shoost dink how de Deutsch kit driven | K |
| Along by de rowdy's hand | B |
Charles G. Leland
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