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Ao-Safai BALLAD BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS be'ind beneath best go look Bisesa blood bloomin Boh Da Thone Bolivar Boondi Boondi Queen breast breath Bukloh called Captain Colonel's curse Danny Deever dark dawn dead dear Death Delhi town Devil died drunk and resisting earth East is East Er-Heb ere's eyes face fathers fell fire Flag Flag of England flame fled ford Fuzzy-Wuzzy Gods Gunga Gunga Din guns hangin head heard heart Hills hold honour Jack Barrett jezail Johnnie Kabul river Kamal King knew knife Lalun laughed loot Lord mist never night o'er oont palace Peshawur plain Potiphar Priests Red Horse ride road Scindia shame soldier soul stars SUTTEE sword Taman There's thou thrice to-day Tomlinson Tommy Tongue of Jagai trail true love turn twain Twas Unlighted Shrine wait war-ship Clampherdown watched whisper Widow at Windsor wind
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Page 7 - 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 123 - 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 119 - is beer a score o' times," said Files-on-Parade. '"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 120 - O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away"; But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play, The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.
Page 1 - 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 124 - ocked our 'orses, 'E cut our sentries up at Suakim, An' 'e played the cat an' banjo with our forces. So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your "ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin...
Page 119 - ard for life/ the Colour-Sergeant said. 'What's that that whimpers over'ead?' said Files-on-Parade. 'It's Danny's soul that's passin' now/ the Colour-Sergeant said. For they're done with Danny Deever, you can 'ear the quickstep play, The Regiment's in column, an' they're marchin' us away; Ho! the young recruits are shakin', an' they'll want their beer to-day, After hangin
Page 124 - FUZZY-WUZZY' (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) WE'VE fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese; But the Fuzzy was the finest o