"Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet".
The composer does not make clear which sections of the song, if any, are to be sung solo or in chorus.
The poem was titled by Kipling Tin Fish.
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin.
They play their grisly blindfold games In little boxes made of tin.