This is a trailer for the poetry album, "Dogs of War" by David Smooke & Derek Bernard. "If" Poem by Rudyard Kipling Read by David Smooke & Music by Derek Bernard. You can see the music video, shot to the ending scene of "The Dogs of War" (1980) movie here: https://goo.gl/cxtehv 

David Smooke is founding partner in the marketing agency ArtMap Inc. http://www.artmapinc.com/ 
Derek Bernard is the lead singer & lead guitar player in the band Haberdasher http://haberdasherband.com/

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;   
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;   
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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"If" Poem by Rudyard Kipling (Demo for "Dogs of War" Poetry Album)

Dogs of War is an album that combines the spoken word with the music of hip hop, rock and dance beats. It's a narrative to the costs of war through three acts: war's genesis, war, & the aftermath of war.

00. Dogs Of War - Act I

The dark path of unknown decisions to be made, and forks in the road to take.

01. Dogs Of War - Act I - Rudyard Kipling's Reincarnation - Meet Triumph   Disaster

Trumpets herald the call to war. Time to murder and create.

02. Dogs Of War - Act 1 - Robert Frost Meets Maya Angelou - Who You Really Are

The march toward war is littered by the bones of conformity.

03. Dogs Of War - Act 1 - Eric Garner's Last Breath - Something's Got To Break

04. Dogs Of War - Act I - FDR's Call To Arms - Hostilities Exist

 "Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war" (line 270, scene 1, Act III).

- William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (1599)

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