General William Booth Enters Into Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDEEFFGGD HIIHHJJDHHKKD LMMNNOO PIQKKRROO LSTUU OLDLDHHHH HKKVVHHD| To be sung to the tune of 'The Blood of the Lamb' with indicated instrument | A |
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| Bass drum beaten loudly | B |
| Booth led boldly with his big bass drum | C |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
| The Saints smiled gravely and they said He's come | C |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
| Walking lepers followed rank on rank | E |
| Lurching bravoes from the ditches dank | E |
| Drabs from the alleyways and drug fiends pale | F |
| Minds still passion ridden soul powers frail | F |
| Vermin eaten saints with mouldy breath | G |
| Unwashed legions with the ways of Death | G |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
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| Banjos | H |
| Every slum had sent its half a score | I |
| The round world over Booth had groaned for more | I |
| Every banner that the wide world flies | H |
| Bloomed with glory and transcendent dyes | H |
| Big voiced lasses made their banjos bang | J |
| Tranced fanatical they shrieked and sang | J |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
| Hallelujah It was queer to see | H |
| Bull necked convicts with that land make free | H |
| Loons with trumpets blowed a blare blare blare | K |
| On on upward thro' the golden air | K |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
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| Bass drum slower and softer | L |
| Booth died blind and still by Faith he trod | M |
| Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God | M |
| Booth led boldly and he looked the chief | N |
| Eagle countenance in sharp relief | N |
| Beard a flying air of high command | O |
| Unabated in that holy land | O |
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| Sweet flute music | P |
| Jesus came from out the court house door | I |
| Stretched his hands above the passing poor | Q |
| Booth saw not but led his queer ones there | K |
| Round and round the mighty court house square | K |
| Yet in an instant all that blear review | R |
| Marched on spotless clad in raiment new | R |
| The lame were straightened withered limbs uncurled | O |
| And blind eyes opened on a new sweet world | O |
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| Bass drum louder | L |
| Drabs and vixens in a flash made whole | S |
| Gone was the weasel head the snout the jowl | T |
| Sages and sibyls now and athletes clean | U |
| Rulers of empires and of forests green | U |
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| Grand chorus of all instruments Tambourines to the foreground | O |
| The hosts were sandalled and their wings were fire | L |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
| But their noise played havoc with the angel choir | L |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
| O shout Salvation It was good to see | H |
| Kings and Princes by the Lamb set free | H |
| The banjos rattled and the tambourines | H |
| Jing jing jingled in the hands of Queens | H |
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| Reverently sung no instruments | H |
| And when Booth halted by the curb for prayer | K |
| He saw his Master thro' the flag filled air | K |
| Christ came gently with a robe and crown | V |
| For Booth the soldier while the throng knelt down | V |
| He saw King Jesus They were face to face | H |
| And he knelt a weeping in that holy place | H |
| Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb | D |
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