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This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone	A
Erst a Pretender to Theebaw's throne	A
Who harried the district of Alalone	A
How he met with his fate and the V P P	B
At the hand of Harendra Mukerji	C
Senior Gomashta G B T	B
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Value Payable Parcels Post in which the Government collects the money	B
for the sender	D
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Boh Da Thone was a warrior bold	E
His sword and his Snider were bossed with gold	E
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And the Peacock Banner his henchmen bore	F
Was stiff with bullion but stiffer with gore	F
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He shot at the strong and he slashed at the weak	G
From the Salween scrub to the Chindwin teak	G
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He crucified noble he sacrificed mean	A
He filled old ladies with kerosene	A
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While over the water the papers cried	H
quot The patriot fights for his countryside quot	H
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But little they cared for the Native Press	I
The worn white soldiers in Khaki dress	I
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Who tramped through the jungle and camped in the byre	F
Who died in the swamp and were tombed in the mire	F
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Who gave up their lives at the Queen's Command	H
For the Pride of their Race and the Peace of the Land	H
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Now first of the foemen of Boh Da Thone	A
Was Captain O'Neil of the quot Black Tyrone quot	H
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And his was a Company seventy strong	J
Who hustled that dissolute Chief along	J
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There were lads from Galway and Louth and Meath	K
Who went to their death with a joke in their teeth	K
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And worshipped with fluency fervour and zeal	L
The mud on the boot heels of quot Crook quot O'Neil	L
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But ever a blight on their labours lay	M
And ever their quarry would vanish away	M
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Till the sun dried boys of the Black Tyrone	A
Took a brotherly interest in Boh Da Thone	A
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And sooth if pursuit in possession ends	N
The Boh and his trackers were best of friends	N
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The word of a scout a march by night	H
A rush through the mist a scattering fight	H
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A volley from cover a corpse in the clearing	O
The glimpse of a loin cloth and heavy jade earring	O
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The flare of a village the tally of slain	A
And the Boh was abroad quot on the raid quot again	A
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They cursed their luck as the Irish will	P
They gave him credit for cunning and skill	P
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They buried their dead they bolted their beef	Q
And started anew on the track of the thief	Q
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Till in place of the quot Kalends of Greece quot men said	H
quot When Crook and his darlings come back with the head quot	H
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They had hunted the Boh from the hills to the plain	A
He doubled and broke for the hills again	A
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They had crippled his power for rapine and raid	H
They had routed him out of his pet stockade	H
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And at last they came when the Day Star tired	H
To a camp deserted a village fired	H
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A black cross blistered the Morning gold	H
And the body upon it was stark and cold	H
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The wind of the dawn went merrily past	H
The high grass bowed her plumes to the blast	H
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And out of the grass on a sudden broke	R
A spirtle of fire a whorl of smoke	R
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And Captain O'Neil of the Black Tyrone	A
Was blessed with a slug in the ulnar bone	A
The gift of his enemy Boh Da Thone	A
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Now a slug that is hammered from telegraph wire	F
Is a thorn in the flesh and a rankling fire	F
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The shot wound festered as shot wounds may	M
In a steaming barrack at Mandalay	M
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The left arm throbbed and the Captain swore	F
quot I'd like to be after the Boh once more quot	H
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The fever held him the Captain said	H
quot I'd give a hundred to look at his head quot	H
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The Hospital punkahs creaked and whirred	H
But Babu Harendra Gomashta heard	H
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He thought of the cane brake green and dank	S
That girdled his home by the Dacca tank	S
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He thought of his wife and his High School son	A
He thought but abandoned the thought of a gun	A
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His sleep was broken by visions dread	H
Of a shining Boh with a silver head	H
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He kept his counsel and went his way	M
And swindled the cartmen of half their pay	M
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And the months went on as the worst must do	H
And the Boh returned to the raid anew	H
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But the Captain had quitted the long drawn strife	T
And in far Simoorie had taken a wife	T
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And she was a damsel of delicate mould	H
With hair like the sunshine and heart of gold	H
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And little she knew the arms that embraced	H
Had cloven a man from the brow to the waist	H
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And little she knew that the loving lips	U
Had ordered a quivering life's eclipse	U
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And the eye that lit at her lightest breath	V
Had glared unawed in the Gates of Death	V
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For these be matters a man would hide	H
As a general rule from an innocent Bride	H
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And little the Captain thought of the past	H
And of all men Babu Harendra last	H
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But slow in the sludge of the Kathun road	H
The Government Bullock Train toted its load	H
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Speckless and spotless and shining with ghee	B
In the rearmost cart sat the Babu jee	B
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And ever a phantom before him fled	H
Of a scowling Boh with a silver head	H
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Then the lead cart stuck though the coolies slaved	H
And the cartmen flogged and the escort raved	H
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And out of the jungle with yells and squeals	W
Pranced Boh Da Thone and his gang at his heels	W
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Then belching blunderbuss answered back	X
The Snider's snarl and the carbine's crack	X
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And the blithe revolver began to sing	O
To the blade that twanged on the locking ring	O
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And the brown flesh blued where the bay'net kissed	H
As the steel shot back with a wrench and a twist	H
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And the great white bullocks with onyx eyes	Y
Watched the souls of the dead arise	Y
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And over the smoke of the fusillade	H
The Peacock Banner staggered and swayed	H
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Oh gayest of scrimmages man may see	B
Is a well worked rush on the G B T	B
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The Babu shook at the horrible sight	H
And girded his ponderous loins for flight	H
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But Fate had ordained that the Boh should start	H
On a lone hand raid of the rearmost cart	H
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And out of that cart with a bellow of woe	Z
The Babu fell flat on the top of the Boh	A2
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For years had Harendra served the State	H
To the growth of his purse and the girth of his p et	H
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There were twenty stone as the tally man knows	B2
On the broad of the chest of this best of Bohs	B2
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And twenty stone from a height discharged	H
Are bad for a Boh with a spleen enlarged	H
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Oh short was the struggle severe was the shock	C2
He dropped like a bullock he lay like a block	C2
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And the Babu above him convulsed with fear	F
Heard the labouring life breath hissed out in his ear	F
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And thus in a fashion undignified	H
The princely pest of the Chindwin died	H
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Turn now to Simoorie where lapped in his ease	B2
The Captain is petting the Bride on his knees	B2
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Where the whit of the bullet the wounded man's scream	D2
Are mixed as the mist of some devilish dream	D2
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Forgotten forgotten the sweat of the shambles	B2
Where the hill daisy blooms and the gray monkey gambols	B2
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From the sword belt set free and released from the steel	L
The Peace of the Lord is with Captain O'Neil	L
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Up the hill to Simoorie most patient of drudges	B2
The bags on his shoulder the mail runner trudges	B2
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quot For Captain O'Neil Sahib One hundred and ten	A
Rupees to collect on delivery quot	H
Then	A
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Their breakfast was stopped while the screw jack and hammer	F
Tore waxcloth split teak wood and chipped out the dammer	F
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Open eyed open mouthed on the napery's snow	Z
With a crash and a thud rolled the Head of the Boh	A2
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And gummed to the scalp was a letter which ran	A
quot IN FIELDING FORCE SERVICE	B2
Encampment	H
th Jan	A
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quot Dear Sir I have honour to send as you said	H
For final approval see under Boh's Head	H
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quot Was took by myself in most bloody affair	F
By High Education brought pressure to bear	F
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quot Now violate Liberty time being bad	H
To mail V P P rupees hundred Please add	H
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quot Whatever Your Honour can pass Price of Blood	H
Much cheap at one hundred and children want food	H
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quot So trusting Your Honour will somewhat retain	A
True love and affection for Govt Bullock Train	A
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quot	H