by several characters, among them Lord Grantham (portrayed by Hugh Bonneville). In some of the references to the poem's last line, “better” is purposefully switched to “braver” to reflect the context of the scene. In the 2011 video game L.A. Noire, Cole Phelps' partner as a patrol officer remarks "In for a penny, in for a pound. Lead away, Gunga Din" as they leave the gun store during the Scooter Peyton tutorial case. The poem's last line is quoted to Richard Haig, the main character in the 2014 film Some Kind of Beautiful, by his father Gordon on his deathbed, both characters being English literature professors. In 2015, The Libertines, an English rock band, composed the single "Gunga Din" for their comeback album Anthems for Doomed Youth. The verse "You are a better man than I am" is used throughout the lyrics. Bob Dylan's song "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" has been recorded with a variety of lyrics, and in one version the first two lines are "Crowd so swift, the rain fallin' in. Gonna see a movie called Gunga Din." It is likely that this was a rhyming artifice. Dylan's original lyrics contained the phrase "Pick up your money, pack up your tent", but when the Byrds, led by Roger McGuinn and who frequently covered Dylan's songs, recorded it, the line was transposed to "Pack up your money, pick up your tent". In a revised version, Dylan rewrote the third line to read "Pack up your money pull up your tent McGuinn", so he likely needed something to rhyme with "McGuinn." See also No Heaven for Gunga Din, with a similar theme about the treatment of native servants by colonial military officers. References Sources George Robinson: "Gunga Din" (article on the 1939 Hollywood film). Soldiers of the Queen (journal of the Victorian Military Society). September 1994. External links Text of the poem at The Poetry Foundation Poetry by Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling poems about India 1890 poems Jim Croce songs Characters in poems