A Wild Irishman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Not very many years ago the writer was for some months stationed at	A
South Bend a thriving little city of northern Indiana its main	B
population on the one side of the St Joseph river but quite a	C
respectable fraction thereof taking its industrial way to the opposite	D
shore and there gaining an audience and a hearing in the rather	E
imposing growth and hurly burly of its big manufactories and the	C
consequent rapid appearance of multitudinous neat cottages tenement	F
houses and business blocks A stranger entering South Bend proper on	G
any ordinary day will be at some loss to account for its prosperous	H
appearance its flagged and bowldered streets its handsome mercantile	I
blocks banks and business houses generally Reasoning from cause to	J
effect and seeing but a meager sprinkling of people on the streets	K
throughout the day and these seeming for the most part merely	L
idlers and in no wise accessory to the evident thrift and opulence of	M
their surroundings the observant stranger will be puzzled at the	C
situation But when evening comes and the outlying foundries	N
sewing machine wagon plow and other works together with the	C
paper mills and all the nameless industries when the operations of	M
all these are suspended for the day and the workmen and workwomen	G
loosed from labor then as this vast army suddenly invades and	O
overflows bridge roadway street and lane the startled stranger will	P
fully comprehend the why and wherefore of the city's high prosperity	L
And once acquainted with the people there the fortunate sojourner	E
will find no ordinary culture and intelligence and as certainly he	L
will meet with a social spirit and a wholesouled heartiness that will	P
make the place a lasting memory The town too is the home of many	L
world known notables and a host of local celebrities the chief of	M
which latter class I found during my stay there in the person of	M
Tommy Stafford or The Wild Irishman as everybody called him	Q
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Talk of odd fellows and eccentric characters said Major Blowney my	R
employer one afternoon you must see our 'Wild Irishman' here before	S
you say you've yet found the queerest brightest cleverest chap in	G
all your travels What d'ye say Stockford And the Major paused in	G
his work of charging cartridges for his new breech loading shotgun and	O
turned to await his partner's response	T
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Stockford thus addressed paused above the shield sign he was	U
lettering slowly smiling as he dipped and trailed his pencil through	J
the ivory black upon a bit of broken glass and said in his	V
deliberate half absent minded way Is it Tommy you're telling him	Q
about and then with a gradual broadening of the smile he went on	G
Well I should say so Tommy What's come of the fellow anyway I	R
haven't seen him since his last bout with the mayor on his trial for	S
shakin' up that fast horse man	G
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The fast horse man got just exactly what he needed too said the	C
genial Major laughing and mopping his perspiring brow The fellow	W
was barkin' up the wrong stump when he tackled Tommy Got beat in the	C
trade at his own game you know and wound up by an insult that no	W
Irishman would take and Tommy just naturally wore out the hall carpet	D
of the old hotel with him	Q
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And then collared and led him to the mayor's office himself they	X
say	X
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Oh he did said the Major with a dash of pride in the	C
confirmation that's Tommy all over	E
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Funny trial wasn't it continued the ruminating Stockford	Y
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Wasn't it though laughed the Major	E
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The porter's testimony You see he was for Tommy of course and on	G
examination testified that the horse man struck Tommy first And there	Z
Tommy broke in with 'He's a meanin' well yer Honor but he's lyin'	G
to ye he's lyin' to ye No livin' man iver struck me first nor last	A2
nayther for the matter o' that ' And I	R
thought the court would die concluded the Major in a like	B2
imminent state of merriment	A2
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Yes and he said if he struck him first supplemented Stockford	A2
he'd like to know why the horseman was 'wearin' all the black eyes	C2
and the blood and the boomps on the head of um ' And it's that talk	D2
of his that got him off with so light a fine	G
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As it always does said the Major coming to himself abruptly and	A2
looking at his watch Stock' you say you're not going along with our	E
duck shooting party this time The old Kankakee is just lousy with 'em	E2
this season	G
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Can't go possibly said Stockford not on account of the work at	A2
all but the folks at home ain't just as well as I'd like to see them	F2
and I'll stay here till they're better Next time I'll try and be	L
ready for you Going to take Tommy of course	G2
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Of course Got to have 'The Wild Irishman' with us I'm going around	A2
to find him now Then turning to me the Major continued Suppose you	J
get on your coat and hat and come along It's the best chance you'll	H2
ever have to meet Tommy It's late anyhow and Stockford'll get along	I2
without you Come on	G
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Certainly said Stockford go ahead And you can take him ducking	J2
too if he wants to go	W
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But he doesn't want to go and won't go replied the Major with a	C
commiserative glance at me Says he doesn't know a duck from a	C
poll parrot nor how to load a shotgun and couldn't hit a house if he	L
were inside of it and the door shut Admits that he nearly killed his	V
uncle once on the other side of a tree with a squirrel runnin' down	G
it Don't want him along	I2
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Reaching the street with the genial Major he gave me this advice	K2
Now when you meet Tommy you mustn't take all he says for dead	A2
earnest and you mustn't believe because he talks loud and in	G
italics every other word that he wants to do all the talking and	A2
won't be interfered with That's the way he's apt to strike folks at	A2
first but it's their mistake not his Talk back to him controvert	A2
him whenever he's aggressive in the utterance of his opinions and if	L2
you're only honest in the announcement of your own ideas and beliefs	M2
he'll like you all the better for standing by them He's	N
quick tempered and perhaps a trifle sensitive so share your greater	E
patience with him and he'll pay you back by fighting for you at the	C
drop of the hat In short he's as nearly typical of his gallant	A2
country's brave impetuous fun loving individuality as such a	C
likeness can exist	A2
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But is he quarrelsome I asked	A2
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Not at all There's the trouble If he'd only quarrel there'd be no	W
harm done Quarreling's cheap and Tommy's extravagant A big	N2
blacksmith here the other day kicked some boy out of his shop and	A2
Tommy on his cart happened to be passing at the time and he just	A2
jumped off without a word and went in and worked on that fellow for	S
about three minutes with such disastrous results that they couldn't	A2
tell his shop from a slaughter house paid an assault and battery	L
fine and gave the boy a dollar beside and the whole thing was a	C
positive luxury to him But I guess we'd better drop the subject for	S
here's his cart and here's Tommy Hi there you Far down 'Irish	O2
Mick called the Major in affected antipathy been out raiding the	C
honest farmers' hen roosts again have you	J
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We had halted at a corner grocery and produce store as I took it and	A2
the smooth faced shave headed man in woolen shirt short vest and	A2
suspenderless trousers so boisterously addressed by the Major was	U
just lifting from the back of his cart a coop of cackling chickens	P2
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Arrah ye blasted Kerryonian replied the handsome fellow	W
depositing the coop on the curb and straightening his tall slender	E
figure I were jist thinking of yez and the ducks and here ye come	E2
quackin' into the prisence of r'yalty wid yer canvas back suit upon	G
ye and the shwim skins bechuxt yer toes How air yez anyhow and air	Z
we startin' for the Kankakee by the nixt post	A2
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We're to start just as soon as we get the boys together said the	C
Major shaking hands The crowd's to be at Andrews' by and it's	Q2
fully that now so come on at once We'll go 'round by Munson's and	A2
have Hi send a boy to look after your horse Come and I want to	J
introduce my friend here to you and we'll all want to smoke and	A2
jabber a little in appropriate seclusion Come on And the impatient	A2
Major had linked arms with his hesitating ally and myself and was	U
turning the corner of the street	A2
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It's an hour's work I have yet wid the squawkers mildly protested	A2
Tommy still hanging back and stepping a trifle high but as one	G
Irishman would say til another 'Ye're wrong but I'm wid ye '	-
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And five minutes later the three of us had joined a very jolly party	L
in a snug back room with	R2
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The chamber walls depicted all around	A2
With portraitures of huntsman hawk and hound	A2
And the hurt deer	S2
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and where as well drifted over the olfactory intelligence a certain	G
subtle warm breathed aroma that genially combatted the chill and	A2
darkness of the day without and resurrecting long dead Christmases	V
brimmed the grateful memory with all comfortable cheer	S2
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A dozen hearty voices greeted the appearance of Tommy and the Major	E
the latter adroitly pushing the jovial Irishman to the front with a	C
mock heroic introduction to the general company at the conclusion of	M
which Tommy with his hat tucked under the left elbow stood bowing	J2
with a grace of pose and presence Lord Chesterfield might have	T2
applauded	A2
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Gintlemen said Tommy settling back upon his heels and admiringly	L
contemplating the group Gintlemen I congratu late yez wid a pride	A2
that shoves the thumbs o' me into the arrum holes of me weshkit At	A2
the inshtigation of the bowld O'Blowney axin' the gintleman's	V
pardon I am here wid no silver tongue of illoquence to para lyze yez	V
but I am prisent as has been ripresinted to jine wid yez in a	C
stupendeous waste of gun powder and duck shot and 'high wines ' and	A2
ham sand witches upon the silvonian banks of the ragin' Kankakee	L
where the 'di dipper' tips ye good bye wid his tail and the wild loon	G
skoots like a sky rocket for his exiled home in the alien dunes of the	C
wild morass or as Tommy Moore so illegantly describes the blashted	A2
birrud	A2
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'Away to the dizhmal shwamp he shpeeds	V
His path is rugged and sore	S
Through tangled juniper beds of reeds	V
And many a fen where the serpent feeds	V
And birrud niver flew before	S
And niver will fly any more	S
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if iver he arrives back safe into civilization again and I've been in	G
the poultry business long enough to know the private opinion and	A2
personal integrity of ivery fowl that flies the air or roosts on	G
poles But changin' the subject of my few small remarks here and	A2
thankin yez wid an overflowin' heart but a dhry tongue I have the	C
honor to propose gintlemen long life and health to ivery mother's o'	W
yez and success to the 'Duck hunters of Kankakee '	-
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The duck hunters of the Kankakee chorussed the elated party in such	O2
musical uproar that for a full minute the voice of the enthusiastic	U2
Major who was trying to say something could not be heard Then he	L
said	A2
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I want to propose that theme 'The Duck hunters of the Kankakee' for	S
one of Tommy's improvizations I move we have a song now from Tommy on	G
the 'Duck hunters of the Kankakee '	-
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Hurra Hurra A song from Tommy cried the crowd Make us up a	C
song and put us all into it A song from Tommy A song A song	I2
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There was a queer light in the eye of the Irishman I observed him	Q
narrowly expectantly Often I had read of this phenomenal art of	M
improvised ballad singing but had always remained a little skeptical	V2
in regard to the possibility of such a feat Even in the notable	V2
instances of this gift as displayed by the very clever Theodore Hook	W2
I had always half suspected some prior preparation some adroit	A2
forecasting of the sequence that seemed the instant inspiration of his	V
witty verses	V
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Here was evidently to be a test example and I was all alert to mark	X2
its minutest detail	Y2
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The clamor had subsided and Tommy had drawn a chair near to and	A2
directly fronting the Major's His right hand was extended closely	L
grasping the right hand of his friend which he scarce perceptibly	L
though measuredly lifted and let fall throughout the length of all	L
the curious performance The voice was not unmusical nor was the	C
quaint old ballad air adopted by the singer unlovely in the least	A2
simply a monotony was evident that accorded with the levity and	A2
chance finish of the improvisation and that the song was improvised	A2
on the instant I am certain though in no wise remarkable for other	E
reasons in rhythmic worth or finish And while his smiling auditors	V
all drew nearer and leant with parted lips to catch every syllable	L
the words of the strange melody trailed unhesitatingly into the lines	V
literally as here subjoined	A2
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One gloomy day in the airly Fall	L
Whin the sunshine had no chance at all	L
No chance at all for to gleam and shine	G
And lighten up this heart of mine	G
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'Twas in South Bend that famous town	G
Whilst I were a strollin' round and round	A2
I met some friends and they says to me	L
'It's a hunt we'll take on the Kankakee '	-
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Hurra for the Kankakee Give it to us Tommy cried an enthused	A2
voice between verses Now give it to the Major And the song went	A2
on	G
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There's Major Blowney leads the van	G
As crack a shot as an Irishman	G
For its the duck is a tin decoy	Z2
That his owld shotgun can't destroy	Z2
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And a half a dozen jubilant palms patted the Major's shoulders and	A2
his ruddy good natured face beamed with delight Now give it to the	C
rest of 'em Tommy chuckled the Major And the song continued	A2
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And along wid 'Hank' is Mick Maharr	Z2
And Barney Pince at 'The Shamrock' bar	Z2
There's Barney Pinch wid his heart so true	Z2
And the Andrews Brothers they'll go too	Z2
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Hold on Tommy chipped in one of the Andrews you must give 'the	C
Andrews Brothers' a better advertisement than that Turn us on a full	L
verse can't you	Z2
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Make 'em pay for it if you do said the Major in an undertone And	A2
Tommy promptly amended	A2
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O the Andrews Brothers they'll be there	Z2
Wid good se gyars and wine to shpare	Z2
They'll treat us here on fine champagne	G
And whin we're there they 'll treat us again	G
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The applause here was vociferous and only discontinued when a box of	M
Havanas stood open on the table During the momentary lull thus	V
occasioned I caught the Major's twinkling eyes glancing evasively	L
toward me as he leant whispering some further instructions to Tommy	L
who again took up his desultory ballad while I turned and fled for	Z2
the street catching however as I went and high above the laughter	Z2
of the crowd the satire of this quatrain to its latest line	G
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But R R Riley he 'll not go I guess	V
Lest he'd get lost in the wil der ness	V
And so in the city he will shtop	A3
For to curl his hair in the barber shop	A3
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It was after six when I reached the hotel but I had my hair trimmed	A2
before I went in to supper The style of trimming adopted then I still	L
rigidly adhere to and call it the Tommy Stafford stubble crop	A3
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Ten days passed before I again saw the Major Immediately upon his	V
return it was late afternoon when I heard of it I determined to take	B3
my evening walk out the long street toward his pleasant home and call	L
upon him there This I did and found him in a wholesome state of	M
fatigue slippers and easy chair enjoying his pipe on the piazza Of	M
course he was overflowing with happy reminiscences of the hunt the	C
wood and water craft boats ambushes decoys and tramp and camp	A3
and so on without end but I wanted to hear him talk of The Wild	A2
Irishman Tommy and I think too now that the sagacious Major	Z2
secretly read my desires all the time To be utterly frank with the	C
reader I will admit that I not only think the Major divined my	R
interest in Tommy but I know he did for at last as though reading	J2
my very thoughts he abruptly said after a long pause in which he	L
knocked the ashes from his pipe and refilled and lighted it Well	L
all I know of 'The Wild Irishman' I can tell you in a very few	Z2
words that is if you care at all to listen And the crafty old	A2
Major seemed to hesitate	A2
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Go on go on I said eagerly	L
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About forty years ago resumed the Major placidly in the little	L
old unheard of town Karnteel County Tyrone Province Ulster	Z2
Ireland Tommy Stafford in spite of the contrary opinion of his	V
wretchedly poor parents was fortunate enough to be born And here	Z2
again as I advised you the other day you must be prepared for	Z2
constant surprises in the study of Tommy's character	Z2
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Go on I said I'm prepared for anything	J2
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The Major smiled profoundly and continued	A2
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Fifteen years ago when he came to America and the Lord only knows	V
how he got the passage money he brought his widowed mother with him	Q
here and has supported and is still supporting her Besides went	A2
on the still secretly smiling Major the fellow has actually found	A2
time through all his adversities to pick up quite a smattering of	M
education here and there	Z2
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Poor fellow I broke in sympathizingly what a pity it is that he	L
couldn't have had such advantages earlier in life and as I recalled	A2
the broad brogue of the fellow together with his careless dress	V
recognizing beneath it all the native talent and brilliancy of a mind	A2
of most uncommon worth I could not restrain a deep sigh of compassion	G
and regret	A2
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The Major was leaning forward in the gathering dusk and evidently	L
studying my own face the expression of which at that moment was	V
very grave and solemn I am sure He suddenly threw himself backward	A2
in his chair in an uncontrollable burst of laughter Oh I just	A2
can't keep it up any longer he exclaimed	A2
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Keep what up I queried in a perfect maze of bewilderment and	A2
surprise Keep what up I repeated	A2
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Why all this twaddle farce travesty and by play regarding Tommy	L
You know I warned you over and over and you mustn't blame me for the	C
deception I never thought you'd take it so in earnest and here the	C
jovial Major again went into convulsions of laughter	Z2
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But I don't understand a word of it all I cried half frenzied with	C
the gnarl and tangle of the whole affair What 'twaddle farce and	A2
by play ' is it anyhow And in my vexation I found myself on my feet	A2
and striding nervously up and down the paved walk that joined the	C
street with the piazza pausing at last and confronting the Major	Z2
almost petulantly Please explain I said controlling my vexation	G
with an effort	A2
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The Major arose Your striding up and down there reminds me that a	C
little stroll on the street might do us both good he said Will you	Z2
wait until I get a coat and hat	A2
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He rejoined me a moment later and we passed through the open gate	A2
and saying Let's go down this way he took my arm and turned into a	C
street where cooling as the dusk was the thick maples lining the	C
walk seemed to throw a special shade of tranquility upon us	V
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What I meant was began the Major in low serious voice What I	R
meant was simply this Our friend Tommy though the truest Irishman	G
in the world is a man quite the opposite everyway of the character he	L
has appeared to you All that rich brogue of his is assumed Though	C
he's poor as I told you when he came here his native quickness and	A2
his marvelous resources tact judgment business qualities all have	T2
helped him to the equivalent of a liberal education His love of the	C
humorous and the ridiculous is unbounded but he has serious moments	V
as well and at such times is as dignified and refined in speech and	A2
manner as any man you'd find in a thousand He is a good speaker can	G
stir a political convention to fomentation when he gets fired up and	A2
can write an article for the press that goes spang to the spot He	L
gets into a great many personal encounters of a rather undignified	A2
character but they are almost invariably bred of his innate interest	A2
in the 'under dog ' and the fire and tow of his impetuous nature	Z2
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My companion had paused here and was looking through some printed	A2
slips in his pocket book I wanted you to see some of the fellow's	V
articles in print but I have nothing of importance here only some of	M
his 'doggerel ' as he calls it and you've had a sample of that But	A2
here's a bit of the upper spirit of the man and still another that	A2
you should hear him recite You can keep them both if you care to The	C
boys all fell in love with that last one particularly hearing his	V
rendition of it So we had a lot printed and I have two or three	L
left Put these two in your pocket and read at your leisure	Z2
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But I read them there and then as eagerly too as I append them here	Z2
and now The first is called	A2
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Says He	L
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Whatever the weather may be says he	L
Whatever the weather may be	L
It's plaze if ye will an' I'll say me say	V
Supposin' to day was the winterest day	V
Wud the weather be changing because ye cried	A2
Or the snow be grass were ye crucified	A2
The best is to make your own summer says he	L
Whatever the weather may be says he	L
Whatever the weather may be	L
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Whatever the weather may be says he	L
Whatever the weather may be	L
It's the songs ye sing an' the smiles ye wear	Z2
That's a makin' the sunshine everywhere	Z2
An' the world of gloom is a world of glee	L
Wid the bird in the bush an' the bud in the tree	L
An' the fruit on the stim of the bough says he	L
Whatever the weather may be says he	L
Whatever the weather may be	L
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Whatever the weather may be says he	L
Whatever the weather may be	L
Ye can bring the Spring wid its green an' gold	A2
An' the grass in the grove where the snow lies cold	A2
An' ye'll warm yer back wid a smiling face	V
As ye sit at yer heart like an owld fire place	V
An' toast the toes o' yer soul says he	L
Whatever the weather may be says he	L
Whatever the weather may be	L
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Now said the Major peering eagerly	L
above my shoulder go on with the next	A2
To my liking it is even better than the first	A2
A type of character you'll recognize The	C
same 'broth of a boy ' only Americanized	A2
don't you know	C
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And I read the scrap entitled	A2
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CHAIRLEY BURKE	C3
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It's Chairley Burke's in town b'ys He's down til Jamesy's Place	V
Wid a bran' new shave upon 'um an' the fhwhuskers aff his face	V
He's quit the Section Gang last night and yez can chalk it down	G
There's goin' to be the divil's toime sence Chairley Burke's in	G
town	G
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It's treatin' iv'ry b'y he is an' poundin' on the bar	Z2
Till iv'ry man he 's drinkin' wid must shmoke a foine cigar	Z2
An' Missus Murphy's little Kate that's comin' there for beer	Z2
Can't pay wan cint the bucketful the whilst that Chairley's here	Z2
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He's joompin' oor the tops o' sthools the both forninst an' back	D3
He'll lave yez pick the blessed flure an' walk the straightest	A2
crack	D3
He's liftin' barrels wid his teeth and singin' Garry Owen	G
Till all the house be strikin' hands sence Chairley Burke's in	G
town	G
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The Road Yaird hands comes dhroppin' in an' niver goin' back	D3
An' there 's two freights upon the switch the wan on aither track	D3
An' Mr Gearry from The Shops he's mad enough to swear	Z2
An' durst n't spake a word but grin the whilst that Chairley's	V
there	Z2
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Oh Chairley Chairley Chairley Burke ye divil wid yer ways	V
O' dhrivin' all the throubles aff these dark an' gloomy days	V
Ohone that it's meself wid all the griefs I have to drown	G
Must lave me pick to resht a bit sence Chairley Burke's in town	G
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Before we turn back now said the smiling Major as I stood	A2
lingering over the indefinable humor of the last refrain before we	L
turn back I want to show you something eminently characteristic Come	E2
this way a half dozen steps	V
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As he spoke I looked up to first observe that we had paused before a	C
handsome square brick residence centering a beautiful smooth lawn	G
its emerald only littered with the light gold of the earliest autumn	E2
leaves On either side of the trim walk that led up from the gate to	A2
the carved stone ballusters of the broad piazza with its empty easy	L
chairs were graceful vases frothing over with late blossoms and	A2
wreathed with laurel looking vines and luxuriantly lacing the border	Z2
of the pave that turned the further corner of the house blue white	A2
and crimson pink and violet went fading in perspective as my gaze	V
followed the gesture of the Major's	V
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Here come a little further Now do you see that man there	Z2
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Yes I could make out a figure in the deepening dusk the figure of a	C
man on the back stoop a tired looking man in his shirt sleeves who	A2
sat upon a low chair no not a chair an empty box He was leaning	J2
forward with his elbows on his knees and the hands dropped limp He	L
was smoking too I could barely see his pipe and but for the odor of	M
very strong tobacco would not have known he had a pipe Why does the	C
master of the house permit his servants to so desecrate this beautiful	L
home I thought	A2
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Well shall we go now said the Major	Z2
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I turned silently and we retraced our steps I think neither of us	V
spoke for the distance of a square	Z2
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Guess you didn't know the man there on the back porch said the	C
Major	Z2
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No why I asked dubiously	L
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I hardly thought you would and besides the poor fellow's tired and	A2
it was best not to disturb him said the Major	Z2
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Why who was it some one I know	C
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It was Tommy	L
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Oh said I inquiringly he's employed there in some capacity	L
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Yes as master of the house	V
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You don't mean it	A2
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I certainly do He owns it and made every cent of the money that	A2
paid for it said the Major proudly That's why I wanted you	A2
particularly to note that 'eminent characteristic' I spoke of Tommy	L
could just as well be sitting with a fine cigar on the front piazza	C
in an easy chair as with his dhudeen on the back porch on an empty	L
box where every night you'll find him Its the unconscious dropping	J2
back into the old ways of his father and his father's father and his	V
father's father's father In brief he sits there the poor lorn symbol	L
of the long oppression of his race	V

James Whitcomb Riley

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