A Sailor's Apology For Bow-legs. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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There's some is born with their straight legs by natur	A
And some is born with bow legs from the first	B
And some that should have grow'd a good deal straighter	A
But they were badly nurs'd	B
And set you see like Bacchus with their pegs	C
Astride of casks and kegs	C
I've got myself a sort of bow to larboard	B
And starboard	B
And this is what it was that warp'd my legs	C
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'Twas all along of Poll as I may say	D
That foul'd my cable when I ought to slip	E
But on the tenth of May	D
When I gets under weigh	D
Down there in Hertfordshire to join my ship	E
I sees the mail	F
Get under sail	F
The only one there was to make the trip	E
Well I gives chase	G
But as she run	H
Two knots to one	H
There warn't no use in keeping on the race	G
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Well casting round about what next to try on	I
And how to spin	J
I spies an ensign with a Bloody Lion	H
And bears away to leeward for the inn	J
Beats round the gable	K
And fetches up before the coach horse stable	K
Well there they stand four kickers in a row	A
And so	A
I just makes free to cut a brown 'un's cable	K
But riding isn't in a seaman's natur	A
So I whips out a toughish end of yarn	L
And gets a kind of sort of a land waiter	A
To splice me heel to heel	M
Under the she mare's keel	M
And off I goes and leaves the inn a starn	L
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My eyes how she did pitch	N
And wouldn't keep her own to go in no line	O
Tho' I kept bowsing bowsing at her bow line	O
But always making lee way to the ditch	N
And yaw'd her head about all sorts of ways	P
The devil sink the craft	B
And wasn't she trimendus slack in stays	P
We couldn't no how keep the inn abaft	B
Well I suppose	Q
We hadn't run a knot or much beyond	B
What will you have on it but off she goes	Q
Up to her bends in a fresh water pond	B
There I am all a back	R
So I looks forward for her bridle gears	S
To heave her head round on the t'other tack	R
But when I starts	T
The leather parts	T
And goes away right over by the ears	S
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What could a fellow do	B
Whose legs like mine you know we're in the bilboes	S
But trim myself upright for bringing to	B
And square his yard arms and brace up his elbows	S
In rig all snug and clever	A
Just while his craft was taking in her water	A
I didn't like my berth tho' howsomdever	A
Because the yarn you see kept getting tauter	A
Says I I wish this job was rayther shorter	A
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The chase had gain'd a mile	U
A head and still the she mare stood a drinking	V
Now all the while	U
Her body didn't take of course to shrinking	V
Says I she's letting out her reefs I'm thinking	V
And so she swell'd and swell'd	B
And yet the tackle held	B
'Till both my legs began to bend like winkin	O
My eyes but she took in enough to founder	A
And there's my timbers straining every bit	B
Ready to split	B
And her tarnation hull a growing rounder	A
	-
Well there off Hertford Ness	S
We lay both lash'd and water logg'd together	A
And can't contrive a signal of distress	S
Thinks I we must ride out this here foul weather	A
Tho' sick of riding out and nothing less	S
When looking round I sees a man a starn	O
Hollo says I come underneath her quarter	A
And hands him out my knife to cut the yarn	O
So I gets off and lands upon the road	B
And leaves the she mare to her own consarn	O
A standing by the water	A
If I get on another I'll be blow'd	B
And that's the way you see my legs got bow'd	B

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