Nursery Rhyme. Cliv. Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEE FFDD GGHH DDII JJKK LLMM| Part of this is in a song called 'Jockey's Lamentation ' in the 'Pills to Purge Melancholy ' vol v p | A |
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| Tom he was a piper's son | B |
| He learn'd to play when he was young | C |
| But all the tunes that he could play | D |
| Was Over the hills and far away | D |
| Over the hills and a great way off | E |
| And the wind will blow my top knot off | E |
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| Now Tom with his pipe made such a noise | F |
| That he pleas'd both the girls and boys | F |
| And they stopp'd to hear him play | D |
| Over the hills and far away | D |
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| Tom with his pipe did play with such skill | G |
| That those who heard him could never keep still | G |
| Whenever they heard they began for to dance | H |
| Even pigs on their hind legs would after him prance | H |
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| As Dolly was milking her cow one day | D |
| Tom took out his pipe and began for to play | D |
| So Doll and the cow danced the Cheshire round | I |
| Till the pail was broke and the milk ran on the ground | I |
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| He met old dame Trot with a basket of eggs | J |
| He used his pipe and she used her legs | J |
| She danced about till the eggs were all broke | K |
| She began for to fret but he laughed at the joke | K |
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| He saw a cross fellow was beating an ass | L |
| Heavy laden with pots pans dishes and glass | L |
| He took out his pipe and played them a tune | M |
| And the jackass's load was lightened full soon | M |
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