Ballad Of Army Pay Poem Rhyme Scheme

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In general if you want a man to do a dangerous	A
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job	B
Say swim the Channel climb St Paul's or break	C
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into and rob	B
The Bank of England why you find his wages	D
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must be higher	E
Than if you merely wanted him to Fight the kitchen	F
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fire	E
But in the British Army it's just the other	E
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way	G
And the maximum of danger means the minimum	H
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of pay	G
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You put some men inside a trench and call them	I
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infantrie	E
And make them face ten kinds of hell and face it	J
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cheerfully	K
And hve in holes Uke rats with other rats and	L
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hce and toads	M
And in their leisure time assist the R E 's with	N
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their loads	M
Then when they've done it all you give 'em each	O
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a bob a day	G
For the maximum of danger means the minimum	H
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of pay	G
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We won't run down the A S C nor yet the	P
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R T O	Q
They ration and direct us on the way we've got	R
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to go	Q
They're very useful people and it's pretty plain	S
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to see	K
We couldn't do without 'em nor yet the	P
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A P C	K
But comparing risks and wages I think they all	T
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will say	G
That the maximum of danger means the minimum	H
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of pay	G
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There are men who make munitions and seventy	K
bob a week	U
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They never see a lousy trench nor hear a big shell	V
shriek	U
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And others sing about the war at high class music	W
halls	X
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Getting heaps and heaps of money and encores	Y
from the stalls	X
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They ' keep the home fires burning ' and bright	Z
by night and day	G
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While the maximum of danger means the minimum	H
of pay	G
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I wonder if it's harder to make big shells at a	P
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bench	A2
Than to face the screaming beggars when they're	E
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crumping up a trench	A2
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I wonder if it's harder to sing in mellow tones	B2
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Of danger than to face it say in a wood like	C2
Trone's	B2
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Is discipline skilled labour or something children	F
play	G
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Should the maximum of danger mean the mini	K
mum of pay	G

Frederick William (fw) Harvey

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