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Gunga Din Kipling, Rudyard
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1892

GUNGA DIN
(From Barrack-Room Ballads)

by Rudyard Kipling









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GUNGA_DIN
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You may talk o' gin and beer
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' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them black-faced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.
He was "Din! Din! Din!
You limping lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!
Hi! slippery hitherao!
Water, get it! Panee lao! *
You squigy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din!"
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The uniform 'e wore
Was nothin' much before,
An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind,
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For a piece o' twisty rag