Poet Henry Lawson

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The Foreign Drunk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH AIAIJKJK LKLKMNMN OPOPQBQB

When you get tight in foreign landsA
You never need go slinkingB
No female neighbours lift their handsA
And say The brute he s drinkingB
No mischief maker runs with smilesC
To give your wife a notionD
For she may be ten thousand milesC
Across the bounding oceanD
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Oh I ve been Scottish fu all nightE
O er ills o life victoriousF
And I ve been Dutch and German tightE
And French and Dago gloriousF
We saw no boa constrictors thenG
In every lady s boaH
Though we got drunk with Antwerp menG
And woke up in GenoaH
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When you get tight in foreign landsA
All foreigners are brothersI
You drink their drink and grasp their handsA
And never wish for othersI
Their foreign ways and foreign songsJ
And girls you take delight inK
The war whoop that you raise belongsJ
To the country you get tight inK
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When you get tight in a foreign portL
Or rather bacchanalianK
You need no tongue for love or sportL
Save your own good AustralianK
A girl in Naples kept me squareM
Or helped me to recoverN
For mortal knoweth everywhereM
The language of the loverN
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When you get tight in foreign partsO
With tongue and legs unstableP
They do their best with all their heartsO
And help you all they re ableP
Ah me It was a happy yearQ
Though all the rest were blankyB
When I got drunk on lager beerQ
And sobered up on SwankeyB

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