Barrack-Room Ballads
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- First published
- 1892
- Pages
- 101
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Dedication
1:11 -
Danny Deever
3:00 -
Tommy
3:34 -
Fuzzy-Wuzzy
2:58 -
Soldier, Soldier
2:44 -
Screw-Guns
4:39 -
Cells
2:19 -
Gunga Din
4:15 -
Oonts
3:21 -
Loot
5:53 -
'Snarleyow'
3:09 -
The Widow at Windsor
2:36 -
Belts
3:38 -
The Young British Soldier
6:38 -
Mandalay
3:59 -
Troopin'
2:40 -
The Widow's Party
2:47 -
Ford o' Kabul River
2:53 -
Gentlemen Rankers
3:47 -
Route Marchin'
4:44 -
Shillin' a Day
1:28 -
'Bobs'
3:14 -
'Back to the Army Again'
3:37 -
'Birds of Prey' March
2:36 -
'Soldier an' Salor Too'
3:55 -
Sappers
5:01 -
That Day
2:38 -
'The Men that fought at Minden'
3:18 -
Cholera Camp
3:53 -
The Ladies
3:37 -
Bill 'Awkins
1:31 -
The Mother-Lodge
2:49 -
'Follow Me 'Ome'
2:23 -
The Sergeant's Weddin'
2:30 -
The Jacket
4:29 -
The 'Eathen
5:09 -
The Shut-Eye Sentry
4:12 -
'Mary, Pity Women!'
2:37 -
For to Admire
3:16
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Rudyard Kipling was in his mid twenties when these ballads began appearing in the press in 1890, written in the dropped aitches and slang of the ordinary British soldier rather than the polished English of drawing room verse. Tommy Atkins gets the microphone. He complains about civilians who cheer him in wartime and bar him from the pub in peacetime, watches a comrade put to death in "Danny Deever," remembers a girl in Burma in "Mandalay," and admits in "Gunga Din" that the water carrier he abused was the better man. The imperial politics belong to their moment and are worth arguing with. The ear for speech and rhythm is extraordinary and has never really been matched.
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Book facts
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- First published
- 1892
- Reading time
- About 70 minutes
- Pages
- 101
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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- Alan Mapstone, dc, Adrian Stephens and others