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There's a widow in sleepy Chester	A
Who weeps for her only son	B
There's a grave on the Pabeng River	A
A grave that the Burmans shun	B
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri	A
Who tells how the work was done	B
	-
A Snider squibbed in the jungle	C
Somebody laughed and fled	D
And the men of the First Shikaris	E
Picked up their Subaltern dead	D
With a big blue mark in his forehead	D
And the back blown out of his head	D
	-
Subadar Prag Tewarri	A
Jemadar Hira Lal	F
Took command of the party	G
Twenty rifles in all	H
Marched them down to the river	A
As the day was beginning to fall	H
	-
They buried the boy by the river	A
A blanket over his face	E
They wept for their dead Lieutenant	I
The men of an alien race	E
They made a samadh in his honor	A
A mark for his resting place	E
	-
For they swore by the Holy Water	A
They swore by the salt they ate	J
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib	K
Should go to his God in state	J
With fifty file of Burmans	E
To open him Heaven's gate	J
	-
The men of the First Shikaris	E
Marched till the break of day	L
Till they came to the rebel village	M
The village of Pabengmay	N
A jingal covered the clearing	O
Calthrops hampered the way	L
	-
Subadar Prag Tewarri	A
Bidding them load with ball	H
Halted a dozen rifles	E
Under the village wall	H
Sent out a flanking party	G
With Jemadar Hira Lal	F
	-
The men of the First Shikaris	E
Shouted and smote and slew	P
Turning the grinning jingal	P
On to the howling crew	P
The Jemadar's flanking party	G
Butchered the folk who flew	P
	-
Long was the morn of slaughter	A
Long was the list of slain	Q
Five score heads were taken	B
Five score heads and twain	Q
And the men of the First Shickaris	E
Went back to their grave again	R
	-
Each man bearing a basket	S
Red as his palms that day	L
Red as the blazing village	M
The village of Pabengmay	N
And the drip drip drip from the baskets	E
Reddened the grass by the way	L
	-
They made a pile of their trophies	E
High as a tall man's chin	T
Head upon head distorted	U
Set in a sightless grin	T
Anger and pain and terror	A
Stamped on the smoke scorched skin	T
	-
Subadar Prag Tewarri	A
Put the head of the Boh	K
On the top of the mound of triumph	V
The head of his son below	P
With the sword and the peacock banner	A
That the world might behold and know	P
	-
Thus the samadh was perfect	W
Thus was the lesson plain	Q
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris	E
The price of a white man slain	Q
And the men of the First Shikaris	E
Went back into camp again	R
	-
Then a silence came to the river	A
A hush fell over the shore	A
And Bohs that were brave departed	U
And Sniders squibbed no more	A
For the Burmans said	D
That a white man's head	D
Must be paid for with heads five score	A
	-
There's a widow in sleepy Chester	A
Who weeps for her only son	B
There's a grave on the Pabeng River	A
A grave that the Burmans shun	B
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri	A
Who tells how the work was done	B

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