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Texts by R. Kipling set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

Text Collections:

  • A History of England
  • Barrack-Room Ballads
  • Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling
  • Epitaphs of the War
  • From Day to Day with Kipling
  • Just So Stories
  • Limits and Renewals
  • Many Inventions
  • Plain Tales from the Hills
  • Puck of Pook's Hill
  • Rewards and Fairies
  • Sea Warfare
  • Songs from Books
  • The Day's Work
  • The Five Nations
  • The Hymnal 1940
  • The Jungle Book
  • The Light That Failed
  • The Second Jungle Book
  • The Seven Seas
  • With Number Three

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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  • About the time that taverns shut (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy (The Ballad of Minepit Shaw)
  • A cygan idjot = А цыган идёт (Mokhnatyj shmel' - na dushistyj khmel' = Мохнатый шмель - на душистый хмель) - A. Petrov (Text: Anonymous after Rudyard Kipling) [x]
  • A dead statesman (I could not dig: I dared not rob) (from Epitaphs of the War) - N. Rorem
  • A Doctor of Medicine (Excellent herbs had our fathers of old) (from Rewards and Fairies)
  • À la pointe de l’aube, un sambhur meugla (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet (Chanson de Chasse du Clan de Seenonee)
  • All the world over, nursing their scars (from With Number Three) - M. Shaw
  • Alone upon the housetops to the North (Alone upon the housetops to the North) (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - T. Galloway
  • Alone upon the housetops to the North (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - A. Adams, F. Ayres, Batten, A. Foote, T. Galloway, P. Grainger, T. Hunt, C. Ives, M. Kernochan, A. Scott (The love song of Har Dyal)
  • A maiden in her glory (from Puck of Pook's Hill) (The Bee-Boy's Song) - P. Bellamy
  • An astrologer's song (To the Heavens above us) (from Rewards and Fairies)
  • A Nation spoke to a Nation - W. Davies (Our Lady of the Snows)
  • Anchor Song (Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah, heave her short again!) - P. Grainger
  • And the Only Son lay down again and dreamed that he dreamed a dream (from Songs from Books) (The only son) - P. Grainger
  • As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree - G. Bachlund
  • 'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?" (from The Seven Seas) - W. Ward-Higgs (Bill 'Awkins)
  • A Seal's Lullabye (Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us) (from The Jungle Book) - R. Sowash FRE
  • A Song in Storm (Be well assured that on our side) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet)
  • As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled (from The Jungle Book) FRE - E. Fogg, P. Grainger (Hunting-song of the Seeonee Pack)
  • A three-part song (I'm just in love with all these three) (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy
  • A tree song (Of all the trees that grow so fair) (from Puck of Pook's Hill)
  • At Runnymede, at Runnymede - C. Green (The reeds of Runnymede)
  • At the hole where he went in (from The Jungle Book) - E. Armer, H. Hatch (Epigraph)
  • At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen (from A History of England) - B. Finlayson, C. Green (The dawn wind)
  • Away by the lands of the Japanee
  • Back to the army again (I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at) - G. Cobb
  • Balada o krčmě rybářské (To v krčmě bylo rybářské)
  • Ballad (There were three friends that buried the fourth)
  • Belts (There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay) (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - G. Cobb
  • Berceuse Phoque (Dors, mon baby, la nuit est derrière nous) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - C. Koechlin
  • Berceuse (Dors, mon baby, la nuit est derrière nous) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - M. Grandjany
  • Be well assured that on our side (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar, E. German (A Song in Storm)
  • Be well assured (Be well assured that on our side) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. German
  • Big Steamers (Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers) (from A History of England) - E. Elgar CZE
  • Bill 'Awkins ('As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?") (from The Seven Seas) - W. Ward-Higgs
  • "Birds of Prey" March (March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies) (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - L. Dampier
  • Bisesa's song (Alone upon the housetops to the North) (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - A. Foote
  • Boots (We're foot -- slog -- slog -- slog -- sloggin' over Africa) (from The Five Nations) - P. Dawson, H. Felman, R. Flagler, J. Sousa
  • Brookland Road (I was very well pleased with what I knowed) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy
  • By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - P. Grainger
  • By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea (from Barrack-Room Ballads) CZE - F. Ayres, B. Beverley, W. Damrosch, H. Dixon, A. Foote, H. Genzmer, I. Gurney, W. Hedgcock, D. Prince, E. Richardson, O. Speaks, A. Thayer, H. Travannion, A. Whiting, C. Willeby (Mandalay)
  • Ceux-là furent mes amis dans les nuits de leur jeunesse (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet (La Chanson du Chil)
  • Chanson de Chasse du Clan de Seenonee (À la pointe de l’aube, un sambhur meugla) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book))
  • Chanson de nuit dans la Jungle (Chil Vautour conduit les pas de la nuit) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - C. Koechlin
  • Chanson de Route des Bandar-Log (Voyez-nous passer festonnant la brume) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book))
  • Chanson tirée du "Chat-oui-s'en-va-tout-seul" () - J. Alain (Text: Anonymous after Rudyard Kipling) [x] ⊗
  • Chant de Kala Nag (Je me souviens de qui je fus. J’ai brisé corde et chaîne) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - C. Koechlin
  • Chil-le-Vautour (Ceux-là furent mes amis dans les nuits de leur jeunesse) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet
  • Chil le vautour (Chil Vautour conduit les pas de la nuit) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - M. Delage
  • Chil's Song (These were my companions going forth by night —) (from The Second Jungle Book) FRE
  • Chil Vautour conduit les pas de la nuit (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet, M. Delage, C. Koechlin (Chanson de nuit dans la Jungle)
  • Chladné železo (Stříbro je pro děvčátka — zlato pro paní —)
  • Cold iron (Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy CZE
  • Cuckoo song (Tell it to the locked-up trees)
  • Danny Deever (What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade) - G. Bachlund, P. Bellamy, G. Cobb, W. Damrosch, H. Dixon, P. Grainger, E. Nevin, W. Ward-Higgs, A. Whiting
  • Dawn off the Foreland -- the young flood making (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar (Mine sweepers)
  • Dedication (If I were hanged on the highest hill) (from The Light That Failed) - P. Grainger GER CZE
  • Do moře se děvče dívá u pagody birmanské (Mandalay) -
  • Dors, mon baby, la nuit est derrière nous (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - M. Delage, M. Grandjany, C. Koechlin (Le Phoque blanc)
  • Eddi of Manhood End (Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid) - G. Bachlund
  • Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid - G. Bachlund (Eddi's Service (AD 687))
  • Eddi's Service (AD 687) (Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid)
  • England's answer (Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban) (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - J. Bridge, R. Hunt
  • Epigraph (At the hole where he went in) (from The Jungle Book)
  • Excellent herbs had our fathers of old (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy (A Doctor of Medicine)
  • Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay - H. Atkinson (The lovers' litany)
  • Fair Eve knelt close to the guarded gate in the hush of an Eastern spring (from From Day to Day with Kipling) - A. Foote (The Eden Rose)
  • Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage! - R. Boughton
  • Fair is our lot (Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage!) - R. Boughton
  • Fate's discourtesy (Be well assured that on our side) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar
  • For our white and our excellent nights - for the nights of swift running (from The Second Jungle Book) FRE - P. Grainger
  • For to admire (I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at) - G. Cobb
  • Frankie's trade (Old Horn to All Atlantic said) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy
  • Ganges Pilot (I have slipped my cable, messmates, I’m drifting down with the tide) (from The Light That Failed) - P. Grainger
  • Gentlemen Menige (Til de tabtes Legioner, de forbandedes Kohort) - E. Grieg
  • Gentlemen-Rankers (To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned) (from Barrack-Room Ballads) NOR
  • Gertrude's Prayer (That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend) (from Limits and Renewals) - B. Roe
  • Gethsemane (The Garden called Gethsemane) - G. Bachlund
  • God of our fathers, known of old (from The Five Nations) - J. Bennett, A. Berridge, G. Blanchard, H. Bouverie, H. Bunning, S. Clark, H. Clough-Leighter, A. Coulter, R. De Koven, D. Elliott, D. Fogg, A. Foote, G. Foster, A. Gentry, R. Gibb, W. Gilchrist, P. Grainger, H. Hadley, G. Holt, E. Hopkins, H. Huss, C. Manney, G. Martin, H. Matthews, E. Naylor, G. Nevin, J. Parks, A. Parmor, A. Penn, H. Shelley, G. Sterns, J. Straker, E. Sweeting, A. Walker, G. Warren, H. Willan, C. Wood, H. Woodman (Recessional)
  • God of our Fathers (God of our fathers, known of old) (from The Five Nations) - J. Bennett, G. Blanchard, H. Bouverie, R. Gibb, H. Huss, G. Nevin, G. Sterns, G. Warren, C. Wood
  • Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid (from Rewards and Fairies) CZE - P. Bellamy (Cold iron)
  • Gunga Din (You may talk o' gin and beer) - P. Bellamy, G. Cobb, H. Dixon, R. Flagler, C. Spross, R. Tag, E. Wood
  • Harp Song of the Dane Women (What is a woman that you forsake her) (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - E. Maconchy, B. Roe
  • Harry, our King in England, from London town is gone (from Rewards and Fairies) - Anonymous (King Henry VIII and the Shipwrights)
  • Have You News of My Boy Jack? (Have you news of my boy Jack?") - I. Boyle
  • Have you news of my boy Jack?" - I. Boyle, B. Roe (My Boy Jack)
  • Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - C. Ives (The Song of the Dead)
  • Hear now the Song of the Dead (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) (The Song of the Dead) - G. Bantock, R. Boughton, P. Grainger, C. Ives
  • Heffle Cuckoo Fair (Tell it to the locked-up trees) - M. Shaw
  • Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah, heave her short again! - P. Grainger (Anchor Song)
  • Here we go in a flung festoon (from The Jungle Book) FRE (Road-Song of the Bandar-Log) -
  • Hide from your neighbours as much as you please (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy (The Bee-Boy's Song)
  • How can I turn from any fire (from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling) - C. Ives (The fires)
  • Hunting-song of the Seeonee Pack (As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled) (from The Jungle Book) - E. Fogg, P. Grainger FRE
  • Hymn Before Action (The earth is full of anger) - W. Davies
  • I closed and drew for my love's sake - C. Ives (Tarrant Moss)
  • I could not dig: I dared not rob (from Epitaphs of the War) - N. Rorem (A dead statesman)
  • If I were hanged on the highest hill (from The Light That Failed) GER CZE - G. Aitken, H. Burleigh, A. Claassen, P. Grainger, A. Kellogg, A. Kramer, S. Liddle, M. Maude, H. Norris, L. Ornstein, V. Petrželka, R. Piggot, D. Protheroe, B. Remick, C. Roma, L. Sington, F. Tours, B. Weyman (Mother o' mine)
  • I followed my Duke ere I was a lover (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy (Sir Richard's Song)
  • If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy (Philadelphia)
  • If () - R. Beckett [x]
  • I have slipped my cable, messmates, I’m drifting down with the tide (from The Light That Failed) - P. Grainger (Ganges Pilot)
  • I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at - G. Cobb (Back to the army again)
  • I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) (from The Jungle Book) - P. Grainger
  • I'm just in love with all these three (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy (A three-part song)
  • In Lowestoft a boat was laid (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar (The Lowestoft Boat)
  • In the Story Beyond the Pale (Alone upon the housetops to the North) (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - A. Foote
  • It was our war-ship Clampherdown - F. Bridge, P. Grainger (The Ballad of the "Clampherdown")
  • I've never sailed the Amazon (from Just So Stories) - E. German
  • I was very well pleased with what I knowed (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy, M. Shaw (Brookland Road)
  • I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - M. Carmichael (Tommy)
  • I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines (from The Second Jungle Book) - P. Grainger, A. Scott (Mowgli's song against people)
  • I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain -- (from The Jungle Book) FRE
  • Je me souviens de qui je fus. J’ai brisé corde et chaîne (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - C. Koechlin
  • King Henry VIII and the Shipwrights (Harry, our King in England, from London town is gone) (from Rewards and Fairies) - Anonymous
  • Košíček (Život vše přijme, vše dá ti)
  • La Chanson du Chil (Ceux-là furent mes amis dans les nuits de leur jeunesse) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book))
  • La Loi de la jungle (Par nos nuits, nos belles nuits, — la course et le bois attaqué —) (from Le Second Livre de la jungle) - A. Cozanet
  • La mare est à sec, les ruisseaux taris (from Le Second Livre de la jungle) - A. Cozanet
  • La Soif (La mare est à sec, les ruisseaux taris) (from Le Second Livre de la jungle) - A. Cozanet
  • Le Phoque blanc (Dors, mon baby, la nuit est derrière nous) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book))
  • Les Bandar-Log (Voyez-nous passer festonnant la brume) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet
  • Les Loups qui trottent (À la pointe de l’aube, un sambhur meugla) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet
  • Lest we forget (God of our fathers, known of old) (from The Five Nations) - H. Bunning, J. Parks, A. Penn, J. Straker, E. Sweeting, A. Walker
  • Life's all getting and giving (from Songs from Books) CZE - G. Binkerd (The wishing caps)
  • Lullaby () - C. Haydon [x]
  • Má byla, jedině má. Snědou já shléd ji (Ona však pěla…) -
  • Maktah (Dors, mon baby, la nuit est derrière nous) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - M. Delage
  • Mandalay Waltz (By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea) (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - B. Beverley CZE
  • Mandalay (By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea) (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - F. Ayres, W. Damrosch, A. Foote, H. Genzmer, I. Gurney, E. Richardson, A. Thayer, A. Whiting, C. Willeby CZE
  • Mandalay (Do moře se děvče dívá u pagody birmanské)
  • March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - L. Dampier ("Birds of Prey" March)
  • Matko má! () - V. Petrželka GER (Text: Anonymous after Rudyard Kipling) [x]
  • Men make them fires on the hearth (from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling) (The fires) - C. Ives
  • Merciful Town (Over the edge of the purple down) (from The Day's Work) - P. Grainger
  • Mine sweepers (Dawn off the Foreland -- the young flood making) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet)
  • Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her (from The Seven Seas) CZE - P. Grainger (The first chantey)
  • Mokhnatyj shmel' - na dushistyj khmel' = Мохнатый шмель - на душистый хмель - A. Petrov (Text: Anonymous after Rudyard Kipling) [x]
  • Morning song in the jungle (One moment past our bodies cast) (from The Second Jungle Book - Letting in the Jungle) - P. Grainger
  • Mother o' mine (If I were hanged on the highest hill) (from The Light That Failed) - G. Aitken, H. Burleigh, A. Claassen, A. Kellogg, A. Kramer, S. Liddle, M. Maude, H. Norris, L. Ornstein, V. Petrželka, R. Piggot, D. Protheroe, B. Remick, C. Roma, L. Sington, F. Tours, B. Weyman GER CZE
  • Mother Seal's Lullaby (Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us) (from The Jungle Book) - D. Bright, L. Lehmann FRE
  • Mowgli's song against people (I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines) (from The Second Jungle Book) - P. Grainger, A. Scott
  • My Boy Jack (Have you news of my boy Jack?") - B. Roe
  • My Father's Chair (There are four good legs to my Father's Chair) (from A History of England) - C. Green
  • Neighbours (The man that is open of heart to his neighbour) (from Limits and Renewals) - W. Davies
  • Night song in the jungle (Now Chil the Kite brings home the night) (from The Jungle Book) - D. Bright, P. Grainger FRE
  • Nocturne (Chil Vautour conduit les pas de la nuit) (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet
  • Non Nobis, Domine! (Non Nobis, Domine!) (from The Hymnal 1940) - R. Quilter
  • Northern Ballad (There were three friends that buried the fourth) - P. Grainger
  • Now Chil the Kite brings home the night (from The Jungle Book) FRE - D. Bright, P. Grainger
  • Now this is the Law of the Muscovite, that he proves with shot and steel (The Rhyme of the Three Sealers) - P. Grainger
  • Oak, ash and thorn (Of all the trees that grow so fair) (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy
  • Of all the trees that grow so fair (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy (A tree song)
  • Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us (from The Jungle Book) FRE - R. Atkinson, D. Bright, W. Davies, C. Johns, L. Lehmann, R. Leich, R. Sowash, W. Spalding, E. Wood (Seal Lullaby)
  • Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers (from A History of England) CZE - E. Elgar (Big Steamers)
  • Old Horn to All Atlantic said (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy (Frankie's trade)
  • Ona však pěla… (Má byla, jedině má. Snědou já shléd ji)
  • One moment past our bodies cast (from The Second Jungle Book - Letting in the Jungle) - P. Grainger (Morning song in the jungle)
  • On the Road to Mandalay (By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea) (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - H. Dixon, W. Hedgcock, D. Prince, O. Speaks, H. Travannion CZE
  • Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees - R. Boughton
  • Our fathers of old (Excellent herbs had our fathers of old) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy
  • Our Lady of the Snows (A Nation spoke to a Nation) - W. Davies
  • Over the edge of the purple down (from The Day's Work) - G. Bachlund, P. Grainger
  • Par nos nuits, nos belles nuits, — la course et le bois attaqué — (from Le Second Livre de la jungle) - A. Cozanet
  • Philadelphia (If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy
  • Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - P. Grainger
  • Pity poor fighting men (All the world over, nursing their scars) (from With Number Three) - M. Shaw
  • Poor honest men (Your jar of Virginny) (from Rewards and Fairies) - Anonymous
  • Proč chcete zas vyplout, vy veliké lodi (Veliké lodi) -
  • Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. Stand forward partners all! (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy (The looking-glass)
  • Recessional (God of our fathers, known of old) (from The Five Nations) - A. Berridge, S. Clark, H. Clough-Leighter, A. Coulter, R. De Koven, D. Elliott, D. Fogg, A. Foote, G. Foster, A. Gentry, W. Gilchrist, P. Grainger, H. Hadley, G. Holt, E. Hopkins, C. Manney, G. Martin, H. Matthews, E. Naylor, A. Parmor, H. Shelley, H. Willan, H. Woodman
  • Red dog (For our white and our excellent nights - for the nights of swift running) (from The Second Jungle Book) - P. Grainger FRE
  • Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel - P. Grainger
  • Ride with an idle whip (Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel) - P. Grainger
  • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (At the hole where he went in) (from The Jungle Book) - E. Armer
  • Road-Song of the Bandar-Log (Here we go in a flung festoon) (from The Jungle Book) FRE
  • Rolling down to Rio (I've never sailed the Amazon) (from Just So Stories) - E. German
  • Seal Lullaby (Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us) (from The Jungle Book) - R. Leich, W. Spalding FRE
  • Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again - P. Grainger (The Ballad of the Bolivar)
  • She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew (from Songs from Books) - P. Grainger (The only son)
  • Sir Richard's Song (I followed my Duke ere I was a lover) (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy
  • Soldier, soldier come from the wars - P. Grainger
  • Soldier, soldier (Soldier, soldier come from the wars) - P. Grainger
  • Stříbro je pro děvčátka — zlato pro paní — (Chladné železo) -
  • Submarines (The ships destroy us above) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar
  • Tarrant Moss (I closed and drew for my love's sake) - C. Ives
  • Tell it to the locked-up trees - M. Shaw (Cuckoo song)
  • That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend (from Limits and Renewals) - B. Roe (Gertrude's Prayer)
  • The absent-minded beggar (When you've shouted "Rule Britannia," when you've sung "God save the Queen") - A. Sullivan
  • The bachelor 'e fights for one (from The Five Nations) - G. Cobb, J. Gro, W. Ward-Higgs (The married man)
  • The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House (The wide-eyed corpse rolled free) CZE
  • The Ballad of Minepit Shaw (About the time that taverns shut) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy
  • The Ballad of the "Bolivar" (Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again) - P. Grainger
  • The Ballad of the Clampherdown (It was our war-ship Clampherdown) - F. Bridge, P. Grainger
  • The beaches of Lukannon (I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!)) (from The Jungle Book) - P. Grainger
  • The Bee-Boy's Song (Hide from your neighbours as much as you please) (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - P. Bellamy
  • The bell buoy (They christened my brother of old) - F. Boott
  • The Brookland Road (I was very well pleased with what I knowed) (from Rewards and Fairies) - M. Shaw
  • The Camel's hump is an ugly lump (from Just So Stories) - J. Berger, E. German
  • The Camel's hump (The Camel's hump is an ugly lump) (from Just So Stories) - J. Berger, E. German
  • The challenge of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (At the hole where he went in) (from The Jungle Book) - H. Hatch
  • The City of Sleep (Over the edge of the purple down) (from The Day's Work) - G. Bachlund
  • The coastwise lights (Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees) - R. Boughton
  • The dawn wind (At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen) (from A History of England) - B. Finlayson, C. Green
  • The earth is full of anger - W. Davies (Hymn Before Action)
  • The Eden Rose (Fair Eve knelt close to the guarded gate in the hush of an Eastern spring) (from From Day to Day with Kipling) - A. Foote
  • The fall of the stone (By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed) (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - P. Grainger
  • The fires (Men make them fires on the hearth) (from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling)
  • The first chantey (Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her) (from The Seven Seas) - P. Grainger CZE
  • The four angels (As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree) - G. Bachlund
  • The Garden called Gethsemane - G. Bachlund
  • The Gypsy Trail (The white moth to the closing bine) RUS
  • The heavens above us (To the Heavens above us) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy
  • The Inuit (The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow) - P. Grainger
  • The lark will make her hymn to God - C. Ives
  • The last chantey (Thus said the Lord in the vault above the cherubim) - T. Cook, J. McEwen
  • The looking-glass (Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. Stand forward partners all!) (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy
  • The lovers' litany (Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay) - H. Atkinson
  • The Love Song of Har Dyal (Alone upon the housetops to the North) (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - A. Adams, Batten, P. Grainger, T. Hunt, C. Ives, M. Kernochan, A. Scott
  • The Lowestoft Boat (In Lowestoft a boat was laid) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar
  • The man that is open of heart to his neighbour (from Limits and Renewals) - W. Davies (Neighbours)
  • The married man (The bachelor 'e fights for one) (from The Five Nations) - G. Cobb, J. Gro, W. Ward-Higgs
  • The men of the sea (The sea is a wicked old woman) - P. Grainger [x]
  • The only son (She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew) (from Songs from Books) - P. Grainger
  • The only son (The lark will make her hymn to God) - C. Ives
  • The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow - P. Grainger
  • The Peora hunt (Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide) (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - P. Grainger
  • The Price of the Admiralty (We have fed our sea for a thousand years) (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - R. Boughton
  • There are four good legs to my Father's Chair (from A History of England) - C. Green (My Father's Chair)
  • There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate - P. Grainger (The Sea-Wife)
  • The reeds of Runnymede (At Runnymede, at Runnymede) - C. Green
  • There's a convict more in the Central Jail (from Many Inventions - The Lost Legion) - P. Grainger
  • There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - G. Cobb (Belts)
  • There were three friends that buried the fourth - P. Grainger (Ballad)
  • The Rhyme of the Three Sealers (Where the paper lanterns glow) - P. Grainger
  • The running of Shindand (There's a convict more in the Central Jail) (from Many Inventions - The Lost Legion) - P. Grainger
  • The Sea and the Hills (Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded)
  • The sea is a wicked old woman - P. Grainger [x]
  • The Seal's Lullaby (Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us) (from The Jungle Book) - R. Atkinson, W. Davies, C. Johns FRE
  • The Sea-Wife (There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate) - P. Grainger
  • These were my companions going forth by night — (from The Second Jungle Book) FRE (Chil's Song) -
  • The ships await us above (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) (Tin Fish) - E. Elgar
  • The ships destroy us above (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar (Tin Fish)
  • The Song of the Dead (Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges) (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - C. Ives
  • The Song of the Panthan Girl (Alone upon the housetops to the North) (from Plain Tales from the Hills) - F. Ayres
  • The stream is shrunk -- the pool is dry (from The Second Jungle Book) FRE
  • The sweepers (Dawn off the Foreland -- the young flood making) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet) - E. Elgar
  • The white moth to the closing bine RUS (The Gypsy Trail) -
  • The White Seal's Lullaby (Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us) (from The Jungle Book) - E. Wood FRE
  • The wide-eyed corpse rolled free CZE (The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House) -
  • The Widow's Party (Where have you been this while away) - P. Grainger
  • The wishing caps (Life's all getting and giving) (from Songs from Books) - G. Binkerd CZE
  • They christened my brother of old - F. Boott (The bell buoy)
  • The Young British Soldier (When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East) - P. Grainger
  • Thus said the Lord in the vault above the cherubim - T. Cook, J. McEwen (The last chantey)
  • Tiger! Tiger! (What of the hunting, hunter bold?) (from The Jungle Book) - D. Bright, P. Grainger
  • Til de tabtes Legioner, de forbandedes Kohort - E. Grieg (Gentlemen-Menige)
  • Tin Fish (The ships destroy us above) (from Sea Warfare - The Fringes of the Fleet)
  • Tolerance (How can I turn from any fire) (from Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling) - C. Ives
  • Tommy (I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer) (from Barrack-Room Ballads) - M. Carmichael
  • To the Heavens above us (from Rewards and Fairies) - P. Bellamy (An astrologer's song)
  • To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned (from Barrack-Room Ballads) NOR (Gentlemen-Rankers) -
  • To v krčmě bylo rybářské (Balada o krčmě rybářské) -
  • Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - J. Bridge, R. Hunt (England's answer)
  • 'Twas Fultah Fisher's boarding-house CZE (The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House) -
  • Veliké lodi (Proč chcete zas vyplout, vy veliké lodi)
  • Voyez-nous passer festonnant la brume (from Le Livre de la Jungle (The Jungle Book)) - A. Cozanet (Chanson de Route des Bandar-Log)
  • Wär' ich verirrt an der Welten End' CZE - P. Frommer (Widmung) (Text: J. St. after Rudyard Kipling)
  • We have fed our sea for a thousand years (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - G. Bantock, R. Boughton, P. Grainger (The Song of the Dead)
  • We have fed our seas (We have fed our sea for a thousand years) (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - G. Bantock, P. Grainger
  • We're foot -- slog -- slog -- slog -- sloggin' over Africa (from The Five Nations) - P. Dawson, H. Felman, R. Flagler, J. Sousa (Boots)
  • We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - P. Grainger (The Song of the Dead)
  • We were dreamers (We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town) (from Barrack-Room Ballads - A Song of the English) - P. Grainger
  • What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade - G. Bachlund, P. Bellamy, G. Cobb, W. Damrosch, H. Dixon, P. Grainger, E. Nevin, W. Ward-Higgs, A. Whiting (Danny Deever)
  • What is a woman that you forsake her (from Puck of Pook's Hill) - E. Maconchy, B. Roe (Harp Song of the Dane Women)
  • What of the hunting, hunter bold? (from The Jungle Book) - D. Bright, P. Grainger
  • When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East - P. Grainger (The Young British Soldier)
  • When you've shouted "Rule Britannia," when you've sung "God save the Queen" - A. Sullivan (The absent-minded beggar)
  • Where have you been this while away - P. Grainger (The Widow's Party)
  • Where the paper lanterns glow - P. Grainger (The Rhyme of the Three Sealers)
  • Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded - I. Gurney (The Sea and the Hills)
  • Who hath desired the Sea? (Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded) - I. Gurney
  • Widmung (Wär' ich verirrt an der Welten End') - P. Frommer CZE (Text: J. St. after Rudyard Kipling)
  • You may talk o' gin and beer - P. Bellamy, G. Cobb, H. Dixon, R. Flagler, C. Spross, R. Tag, E. Wood (Gunga Din)
  • You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old (You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old) - L. Lehmann
  • You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old - L. Lehmann
  • Your jar of Virginny (from Rewards and Fairies) - Anonymous (Poor honest men)
  • Život vše přijme, vše dá ti (Košíček) -

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