Danny Deever by Lawrence Tibbett

A recording from 1955 of the great opera baritone Lawrence Tibbett, performing a song based on the Rudyard Kipling poem Danny Deever (set to music by Walter Damrosch in 1897). Apologies for the audio imperfectionsthis is the best copy I could find. The original poem is below: Danny Deever By Rudyard Kipling What are the bugles blowin for said FilesonParade. To turn you out, to turn you out, the ColourSergeant said. What makes you look so white, so white said FilesonParade. Im dreadin what Ive got to watch, the ColourSergeant said. For theyre hangin Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The Regiments in ollow squaretheyre hangin him today; Theyve taken of his buttons off an cut his stripes away, An they re hangin Danny Deever in the mornin. What makes the rearrank breathe so ard said FilesonParade. Its bitter cold, it s bitter cold, the ColourSergeant said. What makes that frontrank man fall down said FilesonParade.