The Way I Treated Father [a Bush Song] Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I WORKED with father in the bush	A
At splitting rails and palings	B
He never was unkind to me	C
Although he had his failings	B
And now his grave is old and green	D
And now at times I m rather	E
Inclined to think twas very mean	D
The way I treated father	E
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The mother had for years been dead	F
And Dad and I and Stumpy	G
Were living in a little shed	F
What bushmen call a humpy	G
And now I think when day began	H
And it was cold and chilly	C
Twas mean to see a grey old man	H
Get up and boil the billy	C
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And though my lazy limbs were stiff	I
And though twas winter weather	E
And though my eyes were shut as if	I
The lids were glued together	E
I think twas mean to lie in bed	F
I think that I was silly	C
Because I growled if father said	F
Git up and bile the billy	C
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I didn t help the cooking much	J
For I was always tired	K
Twas strange that I could eat with such	J
An appetite as I had	L
But now I mind I never growled	M
When father shouted Willie	C
It s gittin on for dinnertime	N
Go home and bile the hilly	C
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His grave is growing old and green	D
And things have altered rather	E
But still I think twas mighty mean	D
The way I treated father	E
He left a tidy sum to me	C
But I d give all the money	C
To hear him say Will you get up	G
And bile the billy Sonny	C

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