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When you're dying

When you're dying, when you really believe you're dying, you think of the most absurd...

Tunes of Glory • 1960

Lt. Col. Basil Barrow: When you're dying, when you really believe you're dying, you think of the most absurd things.
Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C.: In my war I never had time to think.
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow: Oh they gave me time, all right. Again and again. When I was in the prison camp, they nearly drowned me, then they brought me round. Then they put a wet cloth over my mouth and kept it wet until I nearly drowned again. And the only thing that pulled me through was the thought that one day I'd come back and sit in the middle of that table as colonel of this battalion, like my grandfather and his father before him. Only I was going to be the best of the lot

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When you're dying

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When you really believe you're dying you think of the most absurd things

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In my war I never had time to think

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Oh they gave me time all right again and again

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When I was in the prison camp

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nearly drowned me then they brought me round

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Then they put a wet cloth over my mouth and kept it wet until I nearly drowned again

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And the only thing that pulled me through was the thought that one day I'd come back

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and sit in the middle of that table as colonel of this battalion

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Like my grandfather and his father before him

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Only I was gonna be the best of the lot

Duration

40 seconds

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64

Timestamp in Movie

00:53:10

Uploaded

Jan 26, 2025

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Knightsbridge Films

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Movie Summary

After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.