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 THE GRAVE OF THE HUNDRED HEAD

a widow in sleepy Chester

Who weeps for her only son;

There's a grave on the Pabeng River,

A grave that the Burmans shun,

And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri

Who tells how the work was done.

A Snider squibbed in the jungle—

Somebody laughed and fled,

And the men of the first Shikaris

Picked up their Subaltern dead,

With a big blue mark in his forehead

And the back blown out of his head.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,

Jemadar Hira Lal,

Took command of the party,

Twenty rifles in all;

Marched them down to the river

As the day was beginning to fall.

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