Rudyard Kipling

Barrack Room Ballads - Original Edition Rudyard Kipling

What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade"To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour -Sergeant said. "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade. "I'm dreadin ' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said. For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment's in 'ollow square-they're hangin' him to-day; They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.