from "Barrack Room Ballads"
Music by Oley Speaks
Words by Rudyard Kipling
1907
By this means we had been privileged to hear Kipling's 'Mandalay', 'I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby', 'The Midshipmite', and 'Ho, Jolly Jenkin!': and now the piano began to tinkle again and a voice broke into a less familiar number.
Mulliner Nights. 4 The Knightly Quest of Mervyn