The Ol' Tunes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIJKEFE CFLFGECE MCCCNEFE OPQPREFE NSGSTEFE SQSUMEFE| You kin talk about yer anthems | A |
| An' yer arias an' sich | B |
| An' yer modern choir singin' | C |
| That you think so awful rich | B |
| But you orter heerd us youngsters | D |
| In the times now far away | E |
| A singin' o' the ol' tunes | F |
| In the ol' fashioned way | E |
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| There was some of us sung treble | G |
| An' a few of us growled bass | H |
| An' the tide o' song flowed smoothly | I |
| With its 'comp'niment o' grace | J |
| There was spirit in that music | K |
| An' a kind o' solemn sway | E |
| A singin' o' the ol' tunes | F |
| In the ol' fashioned way | E |
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| I remember oft o' standin' | C |
| In my homespun pantaloons | F |
| On my face the bronze an' freckles | L |
| O' the suns o' youthful Junes | F |
| Thinkin' that no mortal minstrel | G |
| Ever chanted sich a lay | E |
| As the ol' tunes we was singin' | C |
| In the ol' fashioned way | E |
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| The boys 'ud always lead us | M |
| An' the girls 'ud all chime in | C |
| Till the sweetness o' the singin' | C |
| Robbed the list'nin' soul o' sin | C |
| An' I used to tell the parson | N |
| 'T was as good to sing as pray | E |
| When the people sung the ol' tunes | F |
| In the ol' fashioned way | E |
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| How I long ag'in to hear 'em | O |
| Pourin' forth from soul to soul | P |
| With the treble high an' meller | Q |
| An' the bass's mighty roll | P |
| But the times is very diff'rent | R |
| An' the music heerd to day | E |
| Ain't the singin' o' the ol' tunes | F |
| In the ol' fashioned way | E |
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| Little screechin' by a woman | N |
| Little squawkin' by a man | S |
| Then the organ's twiddle twaddle | G |
| Jest the empty space to span | S |
| An' ef you should even think it | T |
| 'T is n't proper fur to say | E |
| That you want to hear the ol' tunes | F |
| In the ol' fashioned way | E |
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| But I think that some bright mornin' | S |
| When the toils of life air o'er | Q |
| An' the sun o' heaven arisin' | S |
| Glads with light the happy shore | U |
| I shall hear the angel chorus | M |
| In the realms of endless day | E |
| A singin' o' the ol' tunes | F |
| In the ol' fashioned way | E |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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