Barrack-Room Ballads

Summary

Kipling's songs in the voice of the common British soldier, from Danny Deever, Tommy and Gunga Din to Mandalay and the Widow at Windsor, gave the army in India a voice that had not been heard in English verse before. This edition has the First Series of 1892 and the Second Series of 1896. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

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• Urdu · بیرک روم بیلاڈس · machine translation · complete
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Chapters (38)

1. 1. Danny Deever
2. 2. Tommy
3. 3. Fuzzy-Wuzzy
4. 4. Soldier, Soldier
5. 5. Screw-Guns
6. 6. Cells
7. 7. Gunga Din
8. 8. Oonts
9. 9. Loot
10. 10. 'Snarleyow'
11. 11. The Widow at Windsor
12. 12. Belts
13. 13. The Young British Soldier
14. 14. Mandalay
15. 15. Troopin'
16. 16. The Widow's Party
17. 17. Ford o' Kabul River
18. 18. Gentlemen-Rankers
19. 19. Route Marchin'
20. 20. Shillin' a Day
21. 21. 'Bobs'
22. 22. 'Back to the Army Again'
23. 23. 'Birds of Prey' March
24. 24. 'Soldier an' Sailor Too'
25. 25. Sappers
26. 26. That Day
27. 27. 'The Men that fought at Minden'
28. 28. Cholera Camp
29. 29. The Ladies
30. 30. Bill 'Awkins
31. 31. The Mother-Lodge
32. 32. 'Follow Me 'Ome'
33. 33. The Sergeant's Weddin'
34. 34. The Jacket
35. 35. The 'Eathen
36. 36. The Shut-Eye Sentry
37. 37. 'Mary, Pity Women!'
38. 38. For to Admire