Rosie O' Grady and the Captain's Lady

[Ladkyis]

This line from a poem is just about driving me mad. I have no idea what put it into my head unless it was thinking about my dad and his brothers and their party pieces - they could all *do* something and every Christmas the party would be at our house and they would all turn up and the music would play and everyone would dance or sing or both and at some point Uncle Fred would start with "Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild Wild Women" with my dad doing the "Sing Temptation Will YA!" and then Kath and Ron would do I'll Take you home again Kathleen and soon we would be into the poems and there was one that had the line
...Rosie O'Grady and the Captains lady are sisters under the skin...
Now, in my head I have it filed under Rudyard Kipling but... is this one of his and if so which one cos it isn't Gunga Din.
I'd appreciate some help here or there will be a few sleepless nights until I find it.
Ann |banghead|

[John]

Now, in my head I have it filed under Rudyard Kipling but... is this one of his and if so which one cos it isn't Gunga Din.
I'd appreciate some help here or there will be a few sleepless nights until I find it.
Ann |banghead|
Nearly there, it is Kipling but it is the "colonels lady" not the "captains lady"
O'Grady says.....

John

[Ladkyis]

But which poem? I spent nearly an hour on a Rudyard Kipling website trying to find the poem and I couldn't. :D

[John]

But which poem? I spent nearly an hour on a Rudyard Kipling website trying to find the poem and I couldn't. :D
Drat, why the difficult questions:o
I don't think it was a poem, more likely an essay or letter. i get stuck after The Colonels lady and Rosy O'Grady are sisters under the skin.

John

[Ladkyis]

The poem is called "The Ladies" and it is soooo politically incorrect it is just wonderful - all those PC do gooders would faint away with the vapours if they read it.
The line is in the very last verse, and I have to say that it looks like it doesn't fit the rest of the poem, and it goes like this

What did the Colonel's Lady think?
Nobody never knew;
Somebody asked the Sergeant's Wife
An' she told 'em true!
When you get to a man in the case,
They're like a row of pins
for the colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady
are sisters under their skins

now I can sleep tonight |woohoo|