A Society member, Sir John Chaple, tells me that he was schoolboy to
the biographer Carrington who maintained that much of Kipling's verse
- at least in strophic form - was written to an underlying tune.
Carrington had, apparently, identified many and John can recall the
following:
Screw-guns Eton boating song
Recessional Eternal Father Strong to Save
M'Andrews Hymn The Church's One Foundation
Danny Dever Bollocky Bill
Shilling a Day Vilikins and his Dinah
Follow me Home Dead March in Saul
Jobson's Amen Onward Christian Soldiers
Let us now praise
Famous Men Pop Goes the Weasel
Would colleagues advance any further tunes?
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Jeffery Lewins
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