Gheran's passionate take on Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name.
[It's a little rough as this is the very first recording of this original song, recorded at Gallery House Concerts Society the morning after Chris finished writing the song]
The poem is a rhyming narrative from the point of view of an English soldier in India, about an Indian water-bearer (a bhishti) who saves the soldier's life but is soon shot and killed. In the final three lines, the soldier regrets the abuse he dealt to Din and admits that Din is the better man of the two. The poem was published as one of the set of martial poems called the Barrack-Room Ballads.
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