Screw-Guns

DESCRIPTION: "Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool... With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets." "You can go where you please, you can skid up the trees, But you don't get away from the guns." The life of mountain artillerymen
AUTHOR: Words: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear); the Kipling poem is from 1892 or earlier
KEYWORDS: soldier technology travel animal
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, pp. 67-69, "Screw-Guns" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Rudyard Kipling, "Barrack-Room Ballads," first series, 1892 (available in many editions including on Project Gutenberg)
Roud #29420
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Eton Boat Song" (tune
File: Hopk067

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