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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

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  1. Dedication & Foreword

    4:06

  2. The Fool

    2:26

  3. The Volunteer

    2:21

  4. The Convalescent

    1:45

  5. The Man from Athabaska

    4:39

  6. The Red Retreat

    4:01

  7. The Haggis of Private McPhee

    7:49

  8. The Lark

    1:16

  9. The Odyssey of 'Erbert 'Iggins

    5:09

  10. A Song of Winter Weather

    1:39

  11. Tipperary Days

    2:34

  12. Fleurette

    5:07

  13. Funk

    1:36

  14. Our Hero

    2:11

  15. My Mate

    2:44

  16. Milking Time

    3:23

  17. Young Fellow My Lad

    2:57

  18. A Song of the Sandbags

    3:43

  19. On the Wire

    4:06

  20. Bill's Grave

    3:05

  21. Jean Desprez

    7:52

  22. Going Home

    1:47

  23. Cocotte

    4:38

  24. My Bay'nit

    2:27

  25. Carry On!

    2:33

  26. Over the Parapet

    5:15

  27. The Ballad of Soulful Sam

    4:58

  28. Only a Boche

    4:49

  29. Pilgrims

    2:25

  30. My Prisoner

    3:14

  31. Tri-colour

    2:10

  32. A Pot of Tea

    2:34

  33. The Revelation

    4:12

  34. Grand-père

    1:04

  35. Son

    3:08

  36. The Black Dudeen

    4:50

  37. The Little Piou-piou

    2:56

  38. Bill the Bomber

    5:55

  39. The Whistle of Sandy McGraw

    6:05

  40. The Stretcher-Bearer

    1:21

  41. Wounded

    7:10

  42. Faith

    0:57

  43. The Coward

    3:39

  44. Missis Moriarty's Boy

    2:46

  45. My Foe

    5:04

  46. My Job

    1:55

  47. The Song of the Pacifist

    2:25

  48. The Twins

    1:01

  49. The Song of the Soldier-born

    3:04

  50. Afternoon Tea

    6:28

  51. The Mourners

    2:08

  52. L'Envoi

    2:51

  53. About the Author

    2:12

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916) is a public domain work.

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Soldiers speak in their own accents in Robert W. Service's 1916 collection of poems about the First World War. The opening foreword places the making of verse among ruined roads, night watches and the care of wounded men. Its speaker finds relief in song while asking whether war can ever be right. The poems that follow give that question individual voices: a schoolboy eager to enlist, a working man anxious about his family, and a convalescent remembering his brother.

Rhythm, rhyme and conversational speech turn the wartime scenes into compact stories. In the middle excerpt, a soldier's encounter with an opponent turns on a misunderstanding, while a gambler recalls his friendship with the devout Soulful Sam. These shifts between sorrow, argument and humor give readers a way to explore how ordinary people imagine duty and endure fear. Family ties and comradeship matter as much as public calls to serve.

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Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service (1874-1958) was a British-Canadian poet dubbed the Bard of the Yukon. Born in England and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Canada and worked as a bank clerk in the far north, where the Klondike gold rush inspired the ballads that made him famous.

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