Music by Walter Damrosch
Words by Rudyard Kipling
1897
Origin : https://content.lib.auburn.edu/digital/collection/pianobench/id/224
Two minutes later, Captain Biggar came bustling in with a song on his lips. [...]
'Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now, where are you now?' sang Captain Biggar. 'I... how does the dashed thing go ... I sink beneath your spell. La, la, la ... La, la, la, la. Where are you now? Where are you now? For they're hanging Danny Deever in the morning', he carolled, changing the subject.
Ring for Jeeves. Chapter 13
' [...] If father had caught me sneaking off before closing time, it would have made no difference that I was his son, I would have been marched off into a hollow square of clerks and office boys and had my buttons snipped off, or probably something even worse. You remember what happened to Danny Deever in the morning.'
Bachelor Anonymous. Chapter 12.I