Chris Gard - "GUNGA DIN"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Music written, produced and performed by Chris Gard
All songbook poems arranged by Panama Hat.
"Gunga Din" as a poem was originally written by Rudyard Kipling.
Download song here: chris-gard.ban...
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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 me time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them blackfaced crew
The finest man I ever knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.
He was "Din! Din! Din!
"You limpin' lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!
"Hi! Slippy hitherao!
"Water, get it! Panee lao
"You squidgy-nosed old idol, Gunga Din."
The uniform 'e wore
Was nothin' much before,
An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind,
For a piece o' twisty rag
An' a goatskin water-bag
Was all the field-equipment 'e could find.
When the sweatin' troop-train lay
In a sidin' through the day,
Where the 'eat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl,
We shouted "Harry By!"
Till our throats were bricky-dry,
Then we wopped 'im 'cause 'e couldn't serve us all.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
"You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?
"You put some juldee in it
“I’ll marrow you this minute
"If you don't fill up me helmet, Gunga Din!"
'E would dot an' carry one
Till the longest day was done;
An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.
If we charged or broke or cut,
You could bet your bloomin' nut,
'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear.
With 'is mussick' on 'is back,
'E would skip with our attack,
An' watch us till the bugles made "Retire,"
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide
'E was white, clear white, inside
When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire!
It was "Din! Din! Din!
With the bullets kickin' dust-spots on the green
When the cartridges ran out,
You could hear the front-ranks shout,
"Hi! ammunition-mules an' Gunga Din!"
I shan''t forgit the night
When I dropped be'ind the fight
With a bullet where me belt-plate should 'a' been.
I was chokin' mad with thirst,
An' the man that spied me first
Was our good old grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din.
'E lifted up me 'ead,
An' he plugged me where I bled,
An' 'e guv me 'arf-a-pint o' water green.
It was crawlin' and it stunk,
But of all the drinks I've drunk,
I'm gratefullest to one from Gunga Din.
It was "Din! Din! Din!
"'Ere's a beggar with a bullet through 'is spleen"
"'E's chawin' up the ground,
"An' 'e's kickin' all around:
"For Gawd's sake git the water, Gunga Din!"
'E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,
An' just before 'e died,
"I 'ope you liked your drink" sez Gunga Din.
So I'll meet 'im later on
At the place where 'e is gone
Where it's always double drill and no canteen.
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drinks to poor damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
Yes, Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Never read this poem before, it's funny to see the little hindi Kipling snuck in
"Panee Lao" Bring Water
"Hurry by" = "Hurry Bhai" = "Hurry Brother"
"juldee" = "Quick"
"dooli" = stretcher
Kipling was a master
@@chrisgardbard He was also born in India. And if our friend thinks those few words are impressive, he ought to read the dialogue in some of his stories where soldiers talk with Indian "natives".
I was always wondering what a dooli was, thank you!
I believe that the word "hitherao" is a transliteration of the hindi words "idhar ao", which means come here.
gunga means mute.
Really interesting rendition of the poem.
So underrated
The most pleasurable of tones being given to you on a rhythmic platter by the Bard.
Just another request from the Bard,remember on a Semiogogue stream with John Dee,the tobacco drinking poem from Mr.Dee,still in anticipation waiting for it, here's the poem,I looked and found it:
William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
A Religious Use of Taking Tobacco
By Robert Wisdome (d. 1568)
THE INDIAN 1 weed witherèd quite;
Green at morn, cut down at night;
Shows thy decay; all flesh is hay:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.
And when the smoke ascends on high,
Think thou behold’st the vanity
Of worldly stuff; gone with a puff:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.
But when the pipe grows foul within;
Think of thy soul; defiled with sin
And that the fire doth it require
Thus think, then drink tobacco.
The ashes that are left behind,
May serve to put thee still in mind,
That unto dust return thou must:
Thus think, then drink Tobacco.
It will be a euphonious rendering by the Bard.
The quality of the production and song writing here is OUTSTANDING. Well done.
Thank you kind sir very much
Reminds me of John Edmond's songs, like "The Last Word in Rhodesian" or "The Shangani Patrol."
Bloody hell, mate! A proper rendering of one of the great poems of redemption.
Kipling is always proper. Cheers.
Keep on the road, pal. Found you through the AA mob. Glad to've done so. All the best.
This feels like a classic from a bygone era. Like this could have been a Johnny Cash or Marty Robbins song
Gunga Din always minds me o' Peter Sellers in 'The Party'
''Birdy Num Num''
I just love this. 20th listening.
Gotta get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
Bravo, Chris. My Grandad used to call me Gunga Din when I was a wee nipper, I had never thought about it since he passed 25 years ago, until this song.
I'm now curious what I had done when he was calling me that.
Haha!!
Well, Mr flibble, it's a good name for someone who brings you a drink when you tell them to!
@@chrisgardbard I think that is exactly it, you're right. I ran to get him a McEwan's Export or a dram of whisky on Hogmanay/New Years Eve, he'd thank me by saying "cheers, Gunga Din."
Brilliant rendition BTW.
@@PunksterOS that is really lovely to hear actually. Hopefully we can rekindle that little cultural artefact in the future.
Great song, glad someone is making high quailty reproductions of these old tunes.
Support from Ulster, a suggestion of a great tune which is in bad need of a rehearse "englishman's betrayal"
I second this!
Good stuff Chris.
"Alright i'm listening to this one last time"
-Me at least 4 times a day
Fantastic work
HOW MUCH DOES WATER DOES SHE NEED? IM LIVING NEXT TO GUNGA DIN
That was awesome. Was he a real person or just a poem originally? I see that it was a movie but not much else.
It is from a Rudyard Kipling poem.
@@99IronDuke yes, I know that, which is why I said so.
I believe gunga Din is a fictional character, but obviously in that colonial era, there were indeed extremely earnestly loyal natives who would have embodied this archetype.
@@chrisgardbard I am from India. I got people who had good relations with brits during colonial era. we did business back then in bombay. I also got people who were freedomfighters in my family. I love your music. Found the channel today
That’s great mate, did write the lyrics as well as the music?
Loved every bit of it 👌
Never gets old, thank you.
Superb. You even managed to work a tear from my Jap-eye. Gawd bless you, Gunga Din!
This comment has a very different meaning with my understanding of a jap’s eye 😳
This is like the British Empire version of Hacksaw Ridge.
Have you guys read " Quartered safe out here" by the way?
Excellent autobiographical war account of the author of the Flashman books.
Gard. Gard ... Weren't you at Rorke's Drift in '79?
Bloody Brilliant
I'm here because Radlib named you.
So a gentleman's gentleman
Brilliant 👏
(rajamohan!)
Man, dat tune Rocks!
bloody beggers looter calling everyone thief ,, what an Irony
How dare you culturally appropriate Justin Trudeau
🤣🤣🤣🤣
An explanation for the Bard:
A definition of RATIONALITY:RATIONALITY is using the Power of the brain to do any action,which in our MOVING REALITY,just existing is a part of the PROCESS,so when you just be,you are taking part of RATIONALITY ITSELF,so for the Bard RATIONALITY is like CONSCIOUSNESS itself also an aspect of the COSMOS or NATURE ITSELF;
So for the mellifluous Bard point rationality is a nomenclature for a segment of the procedure of thought that we are too jealous on,because from all NATURE we are all just POINTS of exitance-as humans and all life in EXTERNAL-within that NATURE so we look at everything around us and become too attached to ourselves in an incongruent way from that which is out of ourselves(the EXTERNAL REALITY)that way of thinking that bastradizes and truncates that EXTERNAL always to get a grip on its own thought process,so having an easier paradigm within the mind;for example do this thought experiment:when you have a problem you're going to tackle,you start by imagining yourself as a separate point from what's around you then you move to the thing you're going to tackle so by inference the EXTERNAL surrounding you(that's how we all think about things)the point of SEPARATION for me is that the starting phase becomes transplanted as a beginning point of the EXTERNAL WHICH IS A PROCESS that has nothing from a basis to start from your perspective wether cognized it or not,its always ONGOING regardless of you;
So at a time in history there was a civil war of ideas in the Greek society:the side that won was a proponent of thet point rationality of thought,so that procedure gained the status of philosophy,with it point rationality became a starting standard for all to use and subscribe to in ignorance of what's around them or you might call projecting that phase of thought UNTO NATURE ITSELF;my losing side who had holding the helm at the time were the sophists,who knew that RATIONALITY itself is an aspect of all creation or the COSMOS,within the MOVING PROCESS OF THE EXTERNAL ITSELF WHICH All IS A PART OF,so in THE TRUE OBJECTIVE REALITY you are your own node of RATIONALITY like you are your own node of CREATION who shares from the CONSCIOUSNESS around him(like MY APOLLONIAN PROPHET have said:IN THE WAKE WE SHARE A WORLD WITH OTHERS,WHILE IN SLUMBER WE ALL GO TO OUR OWN WORLDS,THROUGH DREAMS)so my losing side were offering WHOLE RATIONALITY taking the full process of human thought not focusing on one part,in rejection of what's EXTERNALLY around it,by transplanting that starting phase and making it the beginning of RATIONALITY ITSELF so the focus of the thought procedure will become internal instead of external,or what was offered by WHOLE RATIONALITY was using your brain with what you have in your OBJECTIVE NATURAL environment,so point rationality for the euphonious Bard is imagining the individual's perspective secluded from the OBJECTIVE,or as a point UNTO NATURE then to start rationalizing from that human all too human faculty of thought which itself is part of a fuller process in the mind,so letting anthropomorphism corrupt and cloister that base Stone of WHOLE RATIONALITY for the individual:which would be using the Power of your brain within your OBJECTIVE NATURAL circumstances.
Thank you for posting this on my music video
@@chrisgardbard hahahaha 😂🤣🤣😂,I know good Bard it isn't congruent,but I said it will be a comment,so I've put it on your latest video, Ps: "I oup you like your drink 🍻🍻🍻"