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... BELTS There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay , . 182 THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER When the ' arf - made recruity goes out to the East , 186 • MANDALAY By the old Moulmein Pagoda , lookin ' eastward to the sea , 190 ...
... BELTS There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay , . 182 THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER When the ' arf - made recruity goes out to the East , 186 • MANDALAY By the old Moulmein Pagoda , lookin ' eastward to the sea , 190 ...
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... belt set free and released from the steel , The Peace of the Lord is with Captain O'Neil . Up the hill to Simoorie — most patient of drudges— The bags on his shoulder , the mail - runner trudges . ' For Captain O'Neil , Sahib . One ...
... belt set free and released from the steel , The Peace of the Lord is with Captain O'Neil . Up the hill to Simoorie — most patient of drudges— The bags on his shoulder , the mail - runner trudges . ' For Captain O'Neil , Sahib . One ...
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... - ship ' Clampherdown ' That carried an armour - belt ; But fifty feet at stern and bow , Lay bare as the paunch of the purser's sow , To the hail of the Nordenfeldt . ' Captain , they lack us through and through ; 66 THE BALLAD OF.
... - ship ' Clampherdown ' That carried an armour - belt ; But fifty feet at stern and bow , Lay bare as the paunch of the purser's sow , To the hail of the Nordenfeldt . ' Captain , they lack us through and through ; 66 THE BALLAD OF.
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... belt of Naughty Stars that rim the mouth of Hell : The first are red with pride and wrath , the next are white with pain , But the third are black with clinkered sin that cannot burn again : They may hold their path , they may leave ...
... belt of Naughty Stars that rim the mouth of Hell : The first are red with pride and wrath , the next are white with pain , But the third are black with clinkered sin that cannot burn again : They may hold their path , they may leave ...
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... belt and my tunic goed , ' They'll stop my pay , they'll cut away the stripes I used to wear , But I left my mark on the Corp'ral's face , and I think he'll keep it there ! My wife she cries on the barrack - gate , my kid in the barrack ...
... belt and my tunic goed , ' They'll stop my pay , they'll cut away the stripes I used to wear , But I left my mark on the Corp'ral's face , and I think he'll keep it there ! My wife she cries on the barrack - gate , my kid in the barrack ...
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ain't Ao-Safai BALLAD BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS be'ind beggar Belts beneath best go look Bisesa blood bloomin Blow the bugle Boh Da Thone Bolivar Captain Colonel's Copyright curse Dacca Danny Deever dark dawn dead dear lass death Delhi town Devil drunk and resisting English Er-Heb ere's eyes fell fire Flag of England flame ford Fuzzy-Wuzzy goin grey Gunga Gunga Din guns hangin head heart Hell honour jezail Johnnie Kabul river Kamal King Kysh Lalun laughed Long Trail-the trail loot Lord Macmillan marchin mare mist mornin never night old trail oont orses Peshawur Priests Queen Red Horse resisting the Guard road to Mandalay row in Silver Scindia shame skipper soul stars sword Taman There's thou to-day Tommy toot troopin true love Twas Unlighted Shrine war-ship Clampherdown we're goin Widow at Windsor Widow give wind young British soldier