WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs

12 Mar 25 - 08:55 AM (#4218940)
Subject: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: GUEST,Yukon_Jam

Hi everyone, I'm in dire want of a copy of Peter Bellamy's 'Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs' by Dambuster Records, DAM019 1989.

If anyone knows of a copy for sale or has one in their collection that they'd consider selling or trading please let me know, thank you!

Jonathan

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13 Mar 25 - 12:48 AM (#4219000)
Subject: RE: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: Joe Offer

At least for now, you can listen to it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76v-Cgl4HP0

Track listing:

0:00 Back To The Army Again
4:43 Big Steamers
7:14 Gethsemane
9:10 The Prodigal Son
11:34 The Roman Centurion's Song
15:17 We Have Fed Our Sea
18:43 The Dutch In the Medway
21:32 A Song To Mithras
23:42 En-Dor
26:39 Heriot's Ford
28:50 The Anvil
29:57 The Wet Litany
32:40 Thorkild's Song
34:43 Recessional

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18 Mar 25 - 09:50 AM (#4219350)
Subject: RE: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: Charley Noble

To the list might be added "The Ballad of the Bolivar": https://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/bolivar.htm

Kipling wrote this poem in protest to the old ships that were being sent out so the owners could collect their insurance.

(I'm not sure why the link doesn't work!)

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

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18 Mar 25 - 02:45 PM (#4219377)
Subject: RE: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: MaJoC the Filk

Do you mean this, Charlie ? ....

https://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/bolivar.htm

.... doubtless some kind MudElf will be along to fix it in your original post, and perhaps explain why the URL you thought you were posting was replaced by the URL of this thread.

Hope this helps.

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19 Mar 25 - 01:09 AM (#4219395)
Subject: RE: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: GUEST,mg

I put tunes to several songs. Gethsemane to Auld Lang Syne. Helen all alone to what I think is an original tune. The one about the widow who finds a dying child in a storm..to Mary of the Wild Moor. Maybe more. the one i would like to put a tune to is about a grocer and a banker who go to war and come back..i went back to my ____ bank and he to his margarine.

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19 Mar 25 - 02:57 AM (#4219396)
Subject: RE: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: Hagman

https://war-poets.blogspot.com/2011/03/rudyard-kipling-changelings.html

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20 Mar 25 - 12:06 AM (#4219481)
Subject: RE: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: GUEST,mg

yes it is changelings. The song i also mentioned was gift of the sea.

the changelings is an awesome song. I presume it is a song. I think I put a tune to it long ago but it is lost. Has anyone put a tune to it?

I don't think it gets better than this in describing a war and its aftermath.

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20 Mar 25 - 12:10 AM (#4219482)
Subject: RE: WTB: Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
From: GUEST,mg

The Changelings

Or ever the battered liners sank
   With their passengers to the dark,
I was head of a Walworth Bank,
   And you were a grocer's clerk.

I was a dealer in stocks and shares,
   And you in butters and teas,
And we both abandoned our own affairs
   And took to the dreadful seas.

Wet and worry about our ways---
   Panic, onset, and flight---
Had us in charge for a thousand days
   And a thousand-year-long night.

We saw more than the nights could hide---
   More than the waves could keep---
And---certain faces over the side
   Which do not go from our sleep.

We were more tired than words can tell
   While the pied craft fled by,
And the swinging mounds of the Western swell
   Hoisted us Heavens-high...

Now there is nothing---not even our rank---
   To witness what we have been;
And I am returned to my Walworth bank,
   And you to your margarine!


you can never unknow what you know

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