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Page xiv
... GUNS Smokin ' my pipe on the mountings , sniffin ' the mornin ' cool , • CELLS I've a head like a concertina : I've a tongue like a button - stick , GUNGA DIN You may talk o ' gin and beer , 156 160 163 OONTS ! Wot makes the soldier's ...
... GUNS Smokin ' my pipe on the mountings , sniffin ' the mornin ' cool , • CELLS I've a head like a concertina : I've a tongue like a button - stick , GUNGA DIN You may talk o ' gin and beer , 156 160 163 OONTS ! Wot makes the soldier's ...
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... guns speak to the Khyber peak , and his dog - Heratis fly , Ye have heard the song - How long ? How long ? Wolves of the Abazai ! That night before the watch was set , when all the streets were clear , The Governor of Kabul spoke : ' My ...
... guns speak to the Khyber peak , and his dog - Heratis fly , Ye have heard the song - How long ? How long ? Wolves of the Abazai ! That night before the watch was set , when all the streets were clear , The Governor of Kabul spoke : ' My ...
Page 44
... gun . His sleep was broken by visions dread Of a shining Boh with a silver head . He kept his counsel and went his way , And swindled the cartmen of half their pay . And the months went on , as the worst must do , And the Boh returned ...
... gun . His sleep was broken by visions dread Of a shining Boh with a silver head . He kept his counsel and went his way , And swindled the cartmen of half their pay . And the months went on , as the worst must do , And the Boh returned ...
Page 56
... guns guarded their great grey sides that were thirty foot in the sheer , When there came a certain trading - brig with news of a privateer . Her rigging was rough with the clotted drift that drives 56 THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS At ...
... guns guarded their great grey sides that were thirty foot in the sheer , When there came a certain trading - brig with news of a privateer . Her rigging was rough with the clotted drift that drives 56 THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS At ...
Page 57
... off Finisterre . " There were canvas blinds to his bow - gun ports to screen the weight he bore ' And the signals ran for a merchantman from Sandy Hook to the Nore . ' He would not fly the Rovers ' flag - THE THREE CAPTAINS 57.
... off Finisterre . " There were canvas blinds to his bow - gun ports to screen the weight he bore ' And the signals ran for a merchantman from Sandy Hook to the Nore . ' He would not fly the Rovers ' flag - THE THREE CAPTAINS 57.
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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