Mac O'macorkity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBCC DCAC EAEAFCFCC BBBBBCBCC BGBGHCHCC| Plaze Biddy plaze have yez got soom cold vittles | A |
| Yer dooar's badly 'tinded to sure'n' I rang twoice | A |
| Doon't faitch me sthale bread fill me baskits and kittles | A |
| With soomthing what's aitable soomthing what's noice | A |
| One of our boorders is jist about lavin' | B |
| Of roast bafe and sich loike he can't git his fill | C |
| But fruitcake is what me poor mither is cravin' | B |
| And there's our great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
| There's our great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
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| Some people manage to get through the world | D |
| The Mac O'Macorkities probably will | C |
| Yet they have their trials and they have their troubles | A |
| Do hear that great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
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| Come Biddy come now yer Missus is able | E |
| To sind soomthing better than lavin's and scraps | A |
| We boordin' house kapers must sit a foine table | E |
| Or ilse we moight jist as well pack up our traps | A |
| Faith and we had to git mate from the butcher | F |
| And he had the impernance to sind in his bill | C |
| As if we'd spind cash that's laid up for the future | F |
| While there's our great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
| There's our great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
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| Hush Biddy hush git ye done with yer blarney | B |
| An old Oi'rish family ours is ye know | B |
| Along the hoighway forninst Castle Killarney | B |
| We rode in our donkey vans ages ago | B |
| Bad loock it is with the loikes of us livin' | B |
| On soup bones and praties no chickens to kill | C |
| No turkey at all not since Thanksgivin' | B |
| And there's our great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
| There's our great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
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| Say Biddy say wud ye kape dinner waitin' | B |
| Today is the Barrelbung makers' parade | G |
| Me fayther is one and it's him ye're belatin' | B |
| Be jabers it's twilve o'clock now I'm afraid | G |
| Off on the stroike is he thinkin' its risky | H |
| In such toimes as thase to kape at the mill | C |
| He's nadin' tibbacky he's noigh out o' whisky | H |
| And there's out great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
| There's our great fattin' pig squailin' for swill | C |
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