Ballads and Barrack-room BalladsMacmillan, 1893 - 217 pages |
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ain't Ao-Safai Atkins BALLAD band begins BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS be'ind beer beggar begin to roll Belts beneath best go look Bisesa bloomin Boh Da Thone Bolivar Captain Colonel's Colour-Sergeant curse Danny Deever dark dawn dead dear lass death Delhi town Devil drums begin drunk and resisting English Er-Heb ere's fightin Files-on fire Flag Flag of England ford Fuzzy-Wuzzy goin Gunga Gunga Din guns hangin heart honour Johnnie Kabul river Kamal King Long Trail-the trail loot Lord love the screw-guns Macmillan marchin mare mist mornin never night old trail oont orses Peshawur Queen Red Horse resisting the Guard road to Mandalay row in Silver Sergeant soldier soul sword Taman there's trouble Thin red line thou tide to-day Tomlinson Tommy troopin true love Twas Unlighted Shrine war-ship Clampherdown wheel Widow at Windsor wind young British soldier
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Page 11 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 149 - For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain'ta bloomin' fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
Page 183 - Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
Page 159 - When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Now in Injia's sunny clime, Where I used to spend my time A-servin...
Page 5 - The Colonel's son to the Fort has won, they bid him stay to eat — Who rides at the tail of a Border thief, he sits not long at his meat.
Page 145 - is beer a score o' times,' said Files-onParade. ' 'E's drinkin' bitter beer alone,' the Colour-Sergeant said. They are hangin' Danny Deever, you must mark 'im to 'is place, For 'e shot a comrade sleepin'— you must look 'im in the face; Nine 'undred of 'is county an' the regiment's disgrace, While they're hangin
Page 4 - Khan, the son of the Ressaldar, 'If ye know the track of the morning-mist, ye know where his pickets are. 'At dusk he harries the Abazai — at dawn he is into Bonair, 'But he must go by Fort Bukloh to his own place to fare, 'So if ye gallop to Fort Bukloh as fast as a bird can...
Page 183 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
Page 181 - I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot: Bloomin' idol made o' mud Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud! On the road to Mandalay . . . When the mist was on the rice-fields an
Page 159 - It was crawlin' and it stunk, But of all the drinks I've drunk, I'm gratefullest to one from Gunga Din. It was "Din! Din! Din!" "Ere's a beggar with a. bullet through 'is spleen, 'E's chawin