Cavalier Tunes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCAA DDEEF AA GGHI AA J DDKK AA D LLLD DDDD LLLD DMDM LLLD N OOO O OOO OOO O OOO| MARCHING ALONG | A |
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| Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King | B |
| Bidding the crop headed Parliament swing | B |
| And pressing a troop unable to stoop | C |
| And see the rogues flourish and honest folk droop | C |
| Marched them along fifty score strong | A |
| Great hearted gentlemen singing this song | A |
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| II | - |
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| God for King Charles Pym and such carles | D |
| To the Devil that prompts 'em their treasonous parles | D |
| Cavaliers up Lips from the cup | E |
| Hands from the pasty nor bite take nor sup | E |
| Till you're | F |
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| CHORUS Marching along fifty score strong | A |
| Great hearted gentlemen singing this song | A |
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| Hampden to hell and his obsequies' knell | G |
| Serve Hazelrig Fiennes and young Harry as well | G |
| England good cheer Rupert is near | H |
| Kentish and loyalists keep we not here | I |
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| CHORUS Marching along fifty score strong | A |
| Great hearted gentlemen singing this song | A |
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| IV | J |
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| Then God for King Charles Pym and his snarls | D |
| To the Devil that pricks on such pestilent carles | D |
| Hold by the right you double your might | K |
| So onward to Nottingham fresh for the fight | K |
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| CHORUS March we along fifty score strong | A |
| Great hearted gentlemen singing this song | A |
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| II GIVE A ROUSE | D |
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| King Charles and who'll do him right now | L |
| King Charles and who's ripe for fight now | L |
| Give a rouse here's in hell's despite now | L |
| King Charles | D |
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| II | - |
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| Who gave me the goods that went since | D |
| Who raised me the house that sank once | D |
| Who helped me to gold I spent since | D |
| Who found me in wine you drank once | D |
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| CHORUS King Charles and who'll do him right now | L |
| King Charles and who's ripe for fight now | L |
| Give a rouse here's in hell's despite now | L |
| King Charles | D |
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| III | - |
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| To whom used my boy George quaff else | D |
| By the old fool's side that begot him | M |
| For whom did he cheer and laugh else | D |
| While Noll's damned troopers shot him | M |
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| CHORUS King Charles and who'll do him right now | L |
| King Charles and who's ripe for fight now | L |
| Give a rouse here's in hell's despite now | L |
| King Charles | D |
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| III BOOT AND SADDLE | N |
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| Boot saddle to horse and away | O |
| Rescue my castle before the hot day | O |
| Brightens to blue from its silvery grey | O |
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| CHORUS Boot saddle to horse and away | O |
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| Ride past the suburbs asleep as you'd say | O |
| Many's the friend there will listen and pray | O |
| God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay | O |
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| CHORUS Boot saddle to horse and away '' | - |
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| III | - |
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| Forty miles off like a roebuck at bay | O |
| Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array | O |
| Who laughs Good fellows ere this by my fay | O |
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| CHORUS Boot saddle to horse and away '' | - |
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| IV | O |
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| Who My wife Gertrude that honest and gay | O |
| Laughs when you talk of surrendering Nay | O |
| I've better counsellors what counsel they | O |
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| CHORUS Boot saddle to horse and away '' | - |
Robert Browning
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