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Barrack-Room Ballads

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1892
Pages
101

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  1. Dedication

    1:11

  2. Danny Deever

    3:00

  3. Tommy

    3:34

  4. Fuzzy-Wuzzy

    2:58

  5. Soldier, Soldier

    2:44

  6. Screw-Guns

    4:39

  7. Cells

    2:19

  8. Gunga Din

    4:15

  9. Oonts

    3:21

  10. Loot

    5:53

  11. 'Snarleyow'

    3:09

  12. The Widow at Windsor

    2:36

  13. Belts

    3:38

  14. The Young British Soldier

    6:38

  15. Mandalay

    3:59

  16. Troopin'

    2:40

  17. The Widow's Party

    2:47

  18. Ford o' Kabul River

    2:53

  19. Gentlemen Rankers

    3:47

  20. Route Marchin'

    4:44

  21. Shillin' a Day

    1:28

  22. 'Bobs'

    3:14

  23. 'Back to the Army Again'

    3:37

  24. 'Birds of Prey' March

    2:36

  25. 'Soldier an' Salor Too'

    3:55

  26. Sappers

    5:01

  27. That Day

    2:38

  28. 'The Men that fought at Minden'

    3:18

  29. Cholera Camp

    3:53

  30. The Ladies

    3:37

  31. Bill 'Awkins

    1:31

  32. The Mother-Lodge

    2:49

  33. 'Follow Me 'Ome'

    2:23

  34. The Sergeant's Weddin'

    2:30

  35. The Jacket

    4:29

  36. The 'Eathen

    5:09

  37. The Shut-Eye Sentry

    4:12

  38. 'Mary, Pity Women!'

    2:37

  39. For to Admire

    3:16

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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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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and Nobel laureate, celebrated for The Jungle Book and his tales and poems of British India. He was also an accomplished writer of ghost and horror stories.

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Book facts

First published
1892
Reading time
About 70 minutes
Pages
101
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Alan Mapstone, dc, Adrian Stephens and others