Breitmann's Last Ballads - Cobus Hagelstein Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADBD BECEBFAF BGAGCCHC BICFEJKJ CABBKBLB KKCKCAHA ACCCHBAB KMCMKBIB KMCMIHMH IBCCBICI MHBHIBEB| Ich bin ein Deutscher | A |
| und mein name is Cobus Hagelstein | B |
| I coom from Cincinn ti | C |
| and I life peyond der Rhein | B |
| Und I dells you all a shdory | A |
| dot makes me mad ash blitz | D |
| Pout how a Yankee gompany | B |
| vas shvindle me to fits | D |
| - | |
| I heardt apout dis gompany | B |
| und vished to see dot same | E |
| Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft | C |
| vos ids name | E |
| Dot is de name in Sherman | B |
| in English it will say | F |
| Dot it insures your life mit fire | A |
| ven you de money pay | F |
| - | |
| Now I hod a liddle house line | B |
| vhere I life so shtill ash mice | G |
| Und yoost drei tausand dollar | A |
| vos dot little pilding's brice | G |
| I vos always yoost so happy | C |
| ash ein Kaisar in de land | C |
| Dill at last I kit in drople | H |
| for mein haus vas abgebrannt | C |
| - | |
| Den I goes undo dot gompany | B |
| und dells em right afay | I |
| Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft | C |
| und I say | F |
| At last de youngest day ist coom | E |
| for you to plank de cash | J |
| And you moost bay me monies | K |
| for mine haus is purned to ash | J |
| - | |
| Den de segredary answered | C |
| All dis is fery drue | A |
| Boot you know ve have de option | B |
| to pild your house anew | B |
| Dere ist a lot of beoples | K |
| vot burns deir hauser doun | B |
| Den coom to kit de money pack | L |
| all over in de toun | B |
| - | |
| I look indo de bapers | K |
| und I find it ash he say | K |
| Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft | C |
| need not bay | K |
| So I dells em all to go ahet | C |
| und pild anoder shdore | A |
| Und dey make me von in Yankee shdyle | H |
| more petter ash pefore | A |
| - | |
| Den I met der segredary | A |
| dereafter on a day | C |
| Of Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft | C |
| und he say | C |
| You've found oos vellers honoraple | H |
| und honest in our line | B |
| Vy tont you go insure | A |
| de life of Madame Hagelstein | B |
| - | |
| I poots mine dum oopon mine nose | K |
| and vinks him mit mine eye | M |
| Und says I cooms to do it | C |
| ven de oc an runs dry | M |
| Ven gooses turn to ganders | K |
| und de bigs kits shanged to shvine | B |
| Oh den I makes insure de life | I |
| of Madame Hagelstein | B |
| - | |
| I haf dried you on insurance | K |
| ash you know yust vonce pefore | M |
| Und ven mein haus vas abgebrannt | C |
| you pild anoder shdore | M |
| Id's drue you pild it goot enough | I |
| boot I dell you allaweil | H |
| I vas liket id moosh petter | M |
| if it vas in Sharman shdyle | H |
| - | |
| Now if I goes insure my wife | I |
| anoder dime mit you | B |
| Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft | C |
| I knows vot it would do | C |
| If from dis vorldt Frau Hagelstein | B |
| should rise to Himmel life | I |
| Inshtead of paying gelt you'd kit | C |
| for me a Yankee vife | I |
| - | |
| I poots mine dum pelow mine eye | M |
| und vinks him merrily | H |
| Und say Go find soom Deutscherman | B |
| dot is more creen ash me | H |
| Dere's blendy of dem creen enough | I |
| I know peyond der Rhein | B |
| But none among dem wears de name | E |
| of Cobus Hagelstein | B |
Charles G. Leland
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