Breitmann As A Bummer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGGHHHH HHHIHHHH GGAAHHHH AAHHAAHH IIIIBBHH H AAHHAAJA JJKABBJA HHHHAAGA AAHHGGJA AAHIHHAAAA AAIIBBGA IIAAAAJA AAHHHHAADer Sheneral Sherman holts oop on his coorse | A |
He shtops at de gross road und reins in his horse | A |
Dere's a ford on de rifer dis day we moost dake | B |
Or elshe de grand army in bieces shall preak | B |
Vhen shoost ash dis vord from his lips had gone bast | C |
There coomed a young orterly gallopin' fast | C |
Who gry mit amazement Herr Shen'ral Goot Lord | D |
Dat Bummer der Breitmann ish holdin' der ford | D |
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Der Shen'ral he ootered no hymn und no psalm | E |
But opened his lips und he priefly say D n | F |
Dere moost hafe been viskey on dat side der rifer | G |
To get it dose shaps vould set hell in a shiver | G |
But now dat dey hold it ride quick to deir aid | H |
Ho Sickles move promp'ly send down a prigade | H |
Dat Dootchman moost vork mighty hard mit his sword | H |
If againsd a whole army he holds to de ford | H |
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Dey spoored on dey hoory'd on gallopin' shtraight | H |
But for Breitmann help coomed shoost a liddle too late | H |
For as de Lauwin goes smash mit her pound | H |
So on to de Bummers de repels coom down | I |
Heinrich von Schinkenstein's tead in de road | H |
Dieterich Hinkelbein's flat as a toad | H |
Und Sepperl Tyroler shpoke nefer a vord | H |
But shoost Mutter Gottes und died in de ford | H |
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Itsch'l of Innspruck ish drilled droo de hair | G |
Einer aus B blingen he too vash dere | G |
Karli of Karlisruh's shot near de fence | A |
His horse vash o'erloadet mit toorkies und hens | A |
Und dough he like a ravin' mad cannibal fought | H |
Yet der Breitmann der capt'n der hero vash caught | H |
Und de last dings ve saw he vas tied mit a cord | H |
For de repels had goppled him oop at de ford | H |
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Dey shtripped off his goat und skyugled his poots | A |
Dey dressed him mit rags of a repel recruits | A |
But von gray haared oldt veller shmiled crimly und bet | H |
Dat Breitmann vouldt be a pad egg for dem yet | H |
He has more on his pipe as dem vellers allows | A |
He has cardts yet in hand und das Spiel ist nicht aus | A |
Dey'll find dat dey took in der Teufel to board | H |
De day dey pooled Breitmann vell ofer de ford | H |
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In de Bowery each beer haus mit crape vas oopdone | I |
Vhen dey read in de papers dat Breitmann vas gone | I |
Und de Dootch all cot troonk oopon lager und wein | I |
At the great Trauer fest of de Turner Verein | I |
Dere vas wein en mit weinen ven beoplesh did dink | B |
Dat Sherman's great Sharman cood nefer more trink | B |
Und in Villiam Shtreet veepin' und vailen' vas hoor'd | H |
Pecause der Hans Breitmann vas lost at de ford | H |
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SECOND PART | H |
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In dulce jubilo now ve all sings | A |
A vaifin' de panners like efery dings | A |
De preeze droo de bine trees ish cooler und salt | H |
Und der Shen'ral is merry venefer ve halt | H |
Loosty und merry he schmells at de preeze | A |
Lustig und heiter he looks droo de drees | A |
Lustig und heiter ash vell he may pe | J |
For Sherman at last has marched down to the sea | A |
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Dere's a gry from de guart dere's a clotter und dramp | J |
Vhen dat fery same orterly rides droo de camp | J |
Who report on de ford Dere ish droples and awe | K |
In de face of de youf' apout somedings he saw | A |
Und he shpeak me in Fr ntsch like he always do Look | B |
Sagre pleu Fentre Tieu dere ish Breitmann his spook | B |
He ish goming dis vay Nom de Garce can it pe | J |
Dat de spooks of de tead men coom down to de sea | A |
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Und he looks und ve sees und ve tremples mit tread | H |
For risin' all swart on de efenin' red | H |
Vas Johannes der Breitmann der war es bei Gott | H |
Coom riding' to oos vard right shtraight to de shpot | H |
All mouse still ve shtood yet mit oop shoompin' hearts | A |
For he look shoost so pig as de shiant of de Hartz | A |
Und I heard de Sout Deutschers say Ave Morie | G |
Braise Gott all goot shpirids py land und by sea | A |
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Boot Itzig of Frankfort he lift oop his nose | A |
Und be mark dat de shpook hat peen changin' his clothes | A |
For he seemed like an Generalissimus drest | H |
In a vlamin' new coat und magnificent vest | H |
Six bistols beschlagen mit silber he vore | G |
Und a cold mounded swordt like a Kaisar he bore | G |
Und ve dinks dat de ghosdt or votever he pe | J |
Moost hafe proken some panks on his vay to de sea | A |
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Id is he Und er lebt noch he lifes ve all say | A |
Der Breitmann Oldt Breitmann Hans Breitmann Herr Je | A |
Und ve roosh to emprace him und shtill more ve find | H |
Dat vherefer he'd peen he'd left noding pehine | I |
In bofe of his poots dere vas porte moneys crammed | H |
Mit creen packs stoof full all his haversack jammed | H |
In his bockets cold dollars vere shinglin' deir doons | A |
Mit dwo doozen votches und four dozen shpoons | A |
Und dwo silber tea pods for makin' his dea | A |
Der ghosdt hafe pring mit him en route to de sea | A |
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Mit goot sweed botatoes und doorkies und rice | A |
Ve makes him a sooper of efery dings nice | A |
Und de bummers hoont roundt apout alle wie ein | I |
Dill dey findt a plantaschion mit parrels of wein | I |
Den t'vas Here's to you Breitmann Alt Schwed bist zur ck | B |
Vot teufels you makes since dis fourteen nights veek | B |
Und ve holds von shtupendous and derriple shpree | G |
For shoy dat der Breitmann has got to de sea | A |
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But in fain tid we ashk vhere der Breitmann hat peen | I |
Vot he tid vot he pass droo or vot he might seen | I |
Vhere he kits his vine horse or who gafe him dem woons | A |
Und how Brovidence plessed him mit tea pods und shpoons | A |
For to all of dem queeries he only reblies | A |
If you dells me no quesdions I ashks you no lies | A |
So 'Twas glear dat some derriple mysh'dry moost pe | J |
Vhere he kits all dat ploonder he prings to de sea | A |
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Dere ish bapers in Richmond dells derriple lies | A |
How Sherman's grand armee hafe raise deir sooplies | A |
For ve readt in brindt dat der Sheneral Grant | H |
Say de bummers hafe only shoost take vat dey vant | H |
But 'Tis vhispered dat vhile a refolfer'll go round | H |
Der BREITMANN vill nefer a peggin' be found | H |
Or shtarvin' ash brisner by doonder not he | A |
Vhile der Teufel could help him to ged to de sea | A |
Charles G. Leland
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