The Faithless Fantods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABB CDCCDD CAECA AAFFAA AFAAFF AGAAG HHHHH III A AIAAJI FGFFA IAIIAG IAIAAA| Bill Barcoo was a station 'and 'e was a station 'and | A |
| And grafted all the year like Pharaoh's Jews | B |
| But all 'is pay I grieve ter say 'e blewed you understand | A |
| This station 'and | A |
| Was drinky in his views | B |
| An' 'e was wont ter lash it up on booze | B |
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| Fer Bill 'e wandered once a year exactly once a year | C |
| Ter bust his cheque at Casey's Bush 'Otel | D |
| An' drank the stuff more than enough that Casey sed wus beer | C |
| An' it wus queer | C |
| When 'e wus on a spell | D |
| 'E used to 'old 'is sides an' larf like 'ell | D |
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| No doubt yer've 'eard of Casey's beer of Casey's fightin' beer | C |
| An' Casey's Three Star Blue Gum Brandy too | A |
| The stuff that makes the crimson snakes when you get on yer ear | E |
| Such visions queer | C |
| Were known ter quite a few | A |
| That's why they called the shanty 'Casey's Zoo ' | - |
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| Large purple frogs that sat an' croaked jes' looked at yer an' croaked | A |
| Goanners snakes and spiders without end | A |
| An' sich weird sights distrurbed the nights of such poor bushman bloke | F |
| As 'as a soak | F |
| In Casey's famous blend | A |
| In Casey's fierce an' famous Bushman's Friend | A |
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| But once a year Bill struck the spot 'e blithely struck the spot | A |
| An' slung across the bar 'is 'ard earned cheque | F |
| Then started in to bust 'is tin an' make things fairly 'ot | A |
| Until 'e got | A |
| Fair loaded to the neck | F |
| An' then Bill looked a proper sort er wreck | F |
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| Then 'e begun to see the Zoo ter gaze at Casey's Zoo | A |
| But with the jims and fantods that 'e seen | G |
| 'E made quite free 'Fer why ' sez 'e 'I never see but two | A |
| An' one is blue | A |
| An' t'other's sort er green | G |
| They're jes' the same 'ere ev'ry time I've been ' | - |
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| They wus jes' like ole pals to 'im like lifelong fren's to 'im | H |
| 'E looked to meet 'em ev'ry time 'e came | H |
| Ses 'e 'The blue un's christened Sue she's uppish like an' prim | H |
| But t'other Jim | H |
| 'E'll answer to 'is name | H |
| An' feed out of yer 'and 'e is that tame ' | - |
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| One time when Bill was on the spree a real ole rorty spree | I |
| 'E larfed the 'ole blame time till 'e wus thro' | I |
| We wonders wot noo sort 'e'd got 'e wus so full er glee | I |
| 'You oughter see ' | - |
| Ses 'e when 'e come to | A |
| 'Why blowed if my ole Jim ain't courtin' Sue ' | - |
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| Bill 'ad but one spree after that just one more after that | A |
| An' sich another sight I'd grieve ter see | I |
| 'E cursed an' swore an' raved an' tore 'is 'air an' foamed an' spat | A |
| It knocked us flat | A |
| Fer generally 'e | J |
| When on a jag was merry as could be | I |
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| An' after that Bill guv up drink yes fairly chucked the drink | F |
| But why ther' wasn't one among us knoo | G |
| 'O struth ' ses Bill 'I've 'ad me fill and so 'ud you I think | F |
| O strike me pink | F |
| They once wus green an' blue | A |
| But now ther's yaller red an' purple too ' | - |
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| But one day Bill 'e chats ter me in conferdence ter me | I |
| 'Yer know ' ses 'e 'that Jim was courtin' Sue | A |
| 'Twas quite a joke ter see that bloke but spare me days if she | I |
| Did not agree | I |
| An' they got married too | A |
| Got hitched up quiet an' I never knoo | G |
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| 'I never knoo till my next spree till my next yearly spree | I |
| An' then fust thing the flamin' quadrupids | A |
| I learned them two my Jim and Sue was spliced with twenty three | I |
| In familee | A |
| An' spare me days SUCH KIDS | A |
| I wouldn't 'ave another drink fer quids | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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