My Mind Keeps Movin- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEF BBCCBGHBBB IIJB CCHB KKBBB| Walk into a restaurant with chicken on my mind | A |
| Look at the menu I want roastbeaf and wine | B |
| A waitress comes up I order baked beans and bread | C |
| Oh when she brings it I want ham'n eggs instead | C |
| Because my mind keeps a movin' bouncin' and a groovin' | B |
| A flippin' floppin' every whichaway | D |
| From minute to minute if my mind ain't really in it | E |
| Never know just what I'm do or say | F |
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| Sometimes I wake up happy sometimes I wake up mean | B |
| Sometimes I wake up missin' somethin' I ain't seen | B |
| Might wake up wasted and I might wake up dead | C |
| Might wake up and look around and jump back into bed | C |
| Because my mind keeps a movin' | B |
| guitar | G |
| Sittin' home at midnight thinkin' bout Marie go to the phone I dial Carol Lee | H |
| I say come by babe just as fast as you can | B |
| And when she gets there I'm thinkin' bout Ann | B |
| Because my mind keeps a movin' | B |
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| Fly off to Paris just to get away from home | I |
| Get off in London and I grab a boat for Rome | I |
| Got to St Louis be in St Paul or else take a trip and go no place at all | J |
| Because my mind keeps a movin' | B |
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| I go to a psychiatrist to straighten my head | C |
| Then I decide I need a chiropractor instead | C |
| Put salt in my coffee and ketchup in my tea only dig a chick that don't dig me | H |
| Because my mind keeps a movin' | B |
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| Sometimes I don't shave and I look kinda weird | K |
| So shave off my hair and I grow a beard | K |
| Shave off my beard dye my eyebrows green | B |
| Play myself a song upon a tambourine | B |
| Because my mind keeps a movin' | B |
Shel Silverstein
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