"you're A Better Man Than I, Gunga Din"

[AndiFlatland]

I wonder if anybody remembers this, and can tell me where it originated. I think it was back in the 70s, that Kenny Everett - perhaps - kept running a mad sound clip that ran for about 2 or 3 minutes. It was basically just sounds of utter chaos and galloping horses, with outbreaks of heavy gunfire, which kept subsiding, then breaking out again. I don't think there was anything else to it, no dialogue or anything - until the chaos and gunfire finally died down. In the final seconds of silence, an American voice just came in and said "You're a better man than I, Gunga Din". I know there was 1939 movie called Gunga Din, which I'd rather not sit through to see if it's in that, which I somehow doubt, as it always sounded to me like something that some US shock jock had done for a laugh. Anybody got any memory of this?

[guilliebrougues]

yes, of course they are silly me. Gung Din put others before himself. He even died saving someone else. Read the poem it is interesting.

[jeffa]

"Read the poem"

:-)

[guilliebrougues]

Did you enjoy reading it jeffa. I love Kipling's poems.