Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781411461284
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2017-02-22T00:00:00+00:00


And the bunnia and the ryot are as happy and as quiet

And as plump as they can be!

Yes, the jain and the jat in his stucco-fronted hut,

And the bounding bazugar,

By the favor of the King, are as fat as anything,

They are—they are—they are!

RECITATIVE, Government of India, with white satin wings and electroplated harp:—

How beautiful upon the mountains—in peace reclining,

Thus to be assured that our people are unanimously dining.

And though there are places not so blessed as others in natural advantages, which, after all, was only to be expected,

Proud and glad are we to congratulate you upon the work you have thus ably effected.

(Cres.) How be-ewtiful upon the mountains!

HIRED BAND, brasses only, full chorus:

God bless the Squire

And all his rich relations

Who teach us poor people

We eat our proper rations—

We eat our proper rations,

In spite of inundations,

Malarial exhalations,

And casual starvations,



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