Jim Croce - Gunga Din video free download

Caleb Standridge

"'I hope you like your drink,' said Gunga Din"This line makes me tear up every time.

AquiliferArgentus

People who use contemporary values and mores to judge Kipling as racist don't know how controversial he was for Victorian England. Look at the way the poem ends. He states emphatically that a lower-caste man of color is better than a white Englishman. Yes... that was controversial. In some of his early reading, genteel ladies gasped and not just a few gentlemen told Kipling he was out of line write something like this.Kipling was a realist, and many of those thousands of miles away in England could not handle that.

Kate Halleron

Thanks for posting this! I used to have this in vinyl, but have never found a digital copy and dearly wanted to hear it again.For those of you flaying Kipling for being racist - well, yeah, he was, but FOR HIS TIME, he was amazingly progressive. Don't scorn him because you're standing on his shoulders. We wouldn't have gotten to where we are now without Kipling and people like him who were able to recognize and see beyond their own prejudices.

Alex Trimm

Based off a movie a real story and a song apparently

Keith Cameron

I was introduced to Kipling by my Grandfather who had been a Soldier of the Empire in the Great War. Grandpa would recite Kipling from memory in his soft brogue as I sat in rapt attention at his knee. To this day when I read poetry I still hear it in my Grandfather's voice. Grandfather was fond of this song and I remember him playing it for me on his Hi-Fi. Oh, the memories it does conjure up.Jim's music has always spoken to me in a way that I suppose Kipling spoke to my Grandfather. The great one's are timeless.

john brown

im now 68 still love jim music

Phil Bradshaw

To Mrs. Ingrid Croce, thank you for letting stuff like this stay up. Jim would have wanted his music to be free after you were taken care of. The it may inspire another and I really I hope I get to meet you one day. Ohio is a long way away, but I have listened to you and Mr. Croce since I was 9 and am 37 now and I listen to many of his songs weekly. Heck I have a CD in my car that I have not taken out since I bought it. Again thank you.

ombra306

Eccellente!

Vidwan827

What a well written poem and Jim Croce's fantastic music and well enunciated words !! Absolutely wonderful !! Personally, as an Indian though ..... I must sigh with sadness and wonder, how Mr. Kipling, an otherwise great writer, could have harbored such a profound misanthropic and deeply racist attitude towards the indian natives. Despite the fact that 95% of the British Indian Army, through WWII was composed of indian natives, he makes a song about a non-combatant, who "turns white", only in his martyrdom. ( and still goes to Hell ...?). Understandably, this poem is currently not often recited anywhere in the indian subcontinent. ;-D) A great poet, whose glaring contempt for a large section of humanity .... a footnote that will survive with his fame. My rant ends.

Hgncpa

If you can get the original "Facets by Jim Croce", which is his first album of which only 500 were ever pressed, you will hear this song without the improvements and enhancements provided by digital. The vinyl version is so rich and fabulous, unadulterated music. All the songs on there are really great, and to think he recorded these at 22 years old. 

Utah Bob

Wow! Kipling and Croce. What a combination!

Wayne Triay

5 people have no respectable musical opinion... Croce & Muehleisen were a brilliant representation of the blue collar era of that age

Joshua Plotkin

He was white inside? That is probably the most insulting compliment I have ever heard.

Mark Saunders

JIM CROCER.I.P. JamesRudyard Kipling's Classic

Hugo DBPHuguenot

Given the politics of the 1970's, at least among students, it must have taken some courage for Croce to record this. I remember the collective groan that would come up at Balliol College, Oxford when someone would play this, probably recorded from "The Old Grey Whistle Test." With the benefit of almost sixty years and having stomped all over this world, I see the timelessness of Kipling, and still shed a tear for Gunga Din. Thank you so much for posting it!

Debra Smith

Two astounding talents team to make one of the world's greatest statements. Thanks for posting this.

goldie

I love this and have shared with friends, thank you Jan

Salvo Gianì

Fantastic Jim Croce!!!!

Terry Shaw

WOW..

marilla soper

Never heard this Jim Croce song before love it !! 

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