The Old Band Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGDD HHHHIIDD IIDDHHDD| It's mighty good to git back to the old town shore | A |
| Considerin' I've be'n away twenty year and more | A |
| Sence I moved then to Kansas of course I see a change | B |
| A comin' back and notice things that's new to me and strange | B |
| Especially at evening when yer new band fellers meet | C |
| In fancy uniforms and all and play out on the street | C |
| What's come of old Bill Lindsey and the Saxhorn fellers say | D |
| I want to hear the old band play | D |
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| What's come of Eastman and Nat Snow And where's War Barnett at | E |
| And Nate and Bony Meek Bill Hart Tom Richa'son and that | E |
| Air brother of him played the drum as twic't as big as Jim | F |
| And old Hi Kerns the carpenter say what's become o' him | F |
| I make no doubt yer new band now's a competenter band | G |
| And plays their music more by note than what they play by hand | G |
| And stylisher and grander tunes but somehow anyway | D |
| I want to hear the old band play | D |
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| Sich tunes as John Brown's Body and Sweet Alice don't you know | H |
| And The Camels is A comin' and John Anderson my Jo | H |
| And a dozent others of 'em Number Nine and Number 'Leven | H |
| Was favo rites that fairly made a feller dream o' Heaven | H |
| And when the boys 'u'd saranade I've laid so still in bed | I |
| I've even heerd the locus' blossoms droppin' on the shed | I |
| When Lilly Dale er Hazel Dell had sobbed and died away | D |
| I want to hear the old band play | D |
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| Yer new band ma'by beats it but the old band's what I said | I |
| It allus 'peared to kind o' chord with somepin' in my head | I |
| And whilse I'm no musicianer when my blame' eyes is jes' | D |
| Nigh drownded out and Mem'ry squares her jaws and sort o' says | D |
| She won't ner never will fergit I want to jes' turn in | H |
| And take and light right out o' here and git back West ag'in | H |
| And stay there when I git there where I never haf to say | D |
| I want to hear the old band play | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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