It's been a while since we've had a Kipling/Bellamy number and Jon says, 'I first heard this from Jess Arrowsmith who has just recorded it on a rather splendid CD of children's songs featuring, amongst many others, yours truly contributing a deeply unconvincing pig sound effect in Old Macdonald. I actually learnt this to record at Bateman's, Kipling's house, now owned by the National Trust. Duncan Miller from Vulcan Recordings recorded me straight to wax cylinder and has now pressed the recording onto vinyl cylinder, and it is part of a hands-on phonograph sound exhibit in the museum. Certainly the best excuse I've ever been able to give for missing a meeting was ‘Sorry, can't be there, have to record a song on wax cylinder in Rudyard Kipling's front room.''
I've said before how much I've enjoyed these Kipling adaptations. There's something very straightforward about the way he writes, capturing so much with equally great economy. This is no disappointment either, delighting in the moral ambiguity that the subject deserved. It led me to this link about Sussex smugglers and another of those 'I really do know nothing' moments. I'd never considered the wool trade as being at the root of it. Anyway, it's the turn a blind eye sentiment that's telling in this song, with 'Baccy for the Parson, brandy for the clerk' (or vice versa!), as two figures of respectability benefit from the illicit trade. I wonder how many of us haven't also benefited in some little way. At the same time there's menace to the instruction to 'watch the wall as the gentlemen go by.' Clearly the gangs involved were prone to violence back then, perhaps because of the ultimate sanction if caught. But it's a lot harder to be ambivalent about smuggling these days. The cargo has changed and much misery results. Even the avoidance of duty impacts on the welfare state and more, whereas perhaps the levy was once bound to simply swell the coffers of war. As an aside and to end on a brighter note, those with young children might appreciate this link.
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IF you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,
Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.
Jan 15, 2015 Simon, I so agree with you about the Kipling/Bellamy combination – many of Kipling's pieces seem to cry out for a tune, and Bellamy's are a wonderful fit. Having said that, I first heard this particular one sung by the Mousehole Male Voice Choir way back in the sixties, and am trying to recall if it was Bellamy's tune or not. Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of the. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 'The Smugglers Song' If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet Don't go drawing back the blinds, or looking in the street Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie Watch the wall my darling when the gentlemen go. Buy Rudyard Kipling's poetry. Kipling knew the stories of the smugglers well. In fact, it was impossible to avoid them in those days. The warning to ‘watch the wall, my darling' was sound advice when smugglers were abroad and the opportunity to make off with hidden contraband was best forgotten as it could end in murder.
It's been a while since we've had a Kipling/Bellamy number and Jon says, 'I first heard this from Jess Arrowsmith who has just recorded it on a rather splendid CD of children's songs featuring, amongst many others, yours truly contributing a deeply unconvincing pig sound effect in Old Macdonald. I actually learnt this to record at Bateman's, Kipling's house, now owned by the National Trust. Duncan Miller from Vulcan Recordings recorded me straight to wax cylinder and has now pressed the recording onto vinyl cylinder, and it is part of a hands-on phonograph sound exhibit in the museum. Certainly the best excuse I've ever been able to give for missing a meeting was ‘Sorry, can't be there, have to record a song on wax cylinder in Rudyard Kipling's front room.''
I've said before how much I've enjoyed these Kipling adaptations. There's something very straightforward about the way he writes, capturing so much with equally great economy. This is no disappointment either, delighting in the moral ambiguity that the subject deserved. It led me to this link about Sussex smugglers and another of those 'I really do know nothing' moments. I'd never considered the wool trade as being at the root of it. Anyway, it's the turn a blind eye sentiment that's telling in this song, with 'Baccy for the Parson, brandy for the clerk' (or vice versa!), as two figures of respectability benefit from the illicit trade. I wonder how many of us haven't also benefited in some little way. At the same time there's menace to the instruction to 'watch the wall as the gentlemen go by.' Clearly the gangs involved were prone to violence back then, perhaps because of the ultimate sanction if caught. But it's a lot harder to be ambivalent about smuggling these days. The cargo has changed and much misery results. Even the avoidance of duty impacts on the welfare state and more, whereas perhaps the levy was once bound to simply swell the coffers of war. As an aside and to end on a brighter note, those with young children might appreciate this link.
You can buy the January digital album now from all good download stores.
IF you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,
Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.
Jan 15, 2015 Simon, I so agree with you about the Kipling/Bellamy combination – many of Kipling's pieces seem to cry out for a tune, and Bellamy's are a wonderful fit. Having said that, I first heard this particular one sung by the Mousehole Male Voice Choir way back in the sixties, and am trying to recall if it was Bellamy's tune or not. Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of the. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 'The Smugglers Song' If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet Don't go drawing back the blinds, or looking in the street Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie Watch the wall my darling when the gentlemen go. Buy Rudyard Kipling's poetry. Kipling knew the stories of the smugglers well. In fact, it was impossible to avoid them in those days. The warning to ‘watch the wall, my darling' was sound advice when smugglers were abroad and the opportunity to make off with hidden contraband was best forgotten as it could end in murder.
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark –
Brandy for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk.
Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!
Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
Put the brishwood back again – and they'll be gone next day !
If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
If the lining's wet and warm – don't you ask no more !
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If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
If they call you ' pretty maid,' and chuck you ‘neath the chin,
Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been !
Knocks and footsteps round the house – whistles after dark –
You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
Trusty's here, and Pincher's here, and see how dumb they lie
They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by !
A Smuggler's Song Rudyard Kipling Analysis Questions
‘If You do as you've been told, ‘likely there's a chance,
You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood –
A present from the Gentlemen, along ‘o being good !
Rudyard Kipling's If Poem
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark –
Brandy for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk.
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie –
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by !
