A QUOTATION.
Sir,-May I be permitted to draw attention to a misquotation which appeared in a recent issue of The Listener? Your correspondent, E. M. Perry, quoted a verse from one of Rudyard Kipling’s poems as follows: "It’s Tommy this and Tommy that And Tommy go away. But it’s Thank you Mr. Atkins, When the guns begin to play." Now, it is many years since I read Barrack Room Ballads, but unless I am much mistaken the last line should read: "When the band begins to play." Mr. Perry evidently got mixed up with another verse which reads: "It’s Tommy this and Tommy that And chuck him out the brute, But it’s Thin red line of ’eroes When the gun begins to shoot."
W.H.
M.
Wharehine).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 4
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126A QUOTATION. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 4
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