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Judoo

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  • on Boots by Rudyard Kipling, on March 25, 2006

    Have loved it for over 40 years

    I first heard this poem as the song sung by Nelson Eddy. When I was a teenager, we had a record player (yowza, that make me sound old!) but the only records we had were old 78's that my mom had. She had a few by Nelson Eddy and I fell in love with his voice and have since bought copies of all of his movies. I found out later that Boots was actually a poem by Kipling. Had I read the poem first, I am not sure what I would have thought. Nelson Eddy also recorded a song from another of Kiplings poems, "Route Marchin". In adddition to the old 78's I bought a CD, I think on eBay, about 4 or 5 years ago that included him singing Boots. I just searched on eBay and there are 27 CD's and records with Nelson Eddy singing "Boots"!