How would you rate this poem on the Tea Act?

The Merchant's Song



Oh, me! Oh, my!

Not another act!

We are sick of taxes,

and that鈥檚 a fact!



The East India Company

is taking all our tea!

We need to make a profit!

Come on, and join me!



We鈥檒l go and make them pay!

We鈥檒l get rid of all their tea!

We鈥檒l dump it in the harbor!

Come on, and join me!



I鈥檓 tired of their taxes.

I don鈥檛 want to pay the fee!

I just want to live my life!

Come on, and join me!



Hand me that hatchet,

and dump all the tea!

Come along, everyone,

come on, and join me!



Into the harbor,

goes all the tea!

Dump the tea, dump it,

come on, and join me!



The redcoats are coming!

They鈥檙e coming for me!

Run, people, run,

those who have joined me!











We did it! We did it!

We abolished the act of tea!

Thank you, thank you,

those who have joined me!



I have my job back,

I can again sell the tea!

Thank you, thank you,

those who have joined me!How would you rate this poem on the Tea Act?
do you have any jasmine tea, totally organic and fine?How would you rate this poem on the Tea Act?
Ehh...just for itself, I like it. But it sure doesn't sound like the language a late eighteenth-century poet, even one not cultured, would use. It annoyed me at first, because I thought it sounded like a cynical parody of a late eighteenth-century American tea merchant's attitude; then I decided that it may well be accurate, since you don't have to be cynical to accept that money, business and property often (not always, but often) were the motive of American revolutionaries, especially the businessmen.