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CHANGTE chanty - Apoligies to Bill Shakespear and Ruddy Kipling
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CHANGTE chanty - Apoligies to Bill Shakespear and Ruddy Kipling

Lyricist
Subject or historical figure (Australian, born 1917)
Date1961
Object numberANMS0841[279]
NamePoem
MediumPaper, ink
DimensionsOverall: 336 x 210 x 1 mm
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Elaine Beeham
DescriptionLyrics from CHANGTE chanty by John Carew beginning "From Devonport to Tokyo Bay the CHANGTE ploughed the foam: we came to see the mystic east, seven thousand miles from home: for Kipling wrote of Mandalay and Buddha's shrines galore: we saw them all - or we thought we did - but sandy stayed ashore..."