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Barrack-Room Ballads

Barrack-Room Ballads

by Rudyard Kipling

39 chapters 2h 12m English 1892

About this book

Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time. The poems are written in the voice and language of soldiers of that time. The collection includes some of his best known poems. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Chapters (38)

1 Danny Deever

3:00

2 Tommy

3:34

3 Fuzzy-Wuzzy

2:58

4 Soldier, Soldier

2:44

5 Screw-Guns

4:39

6 Cells

2:19

7 Gunga Din

4:15

8 Oonts

3:21

9 Loot

5:53

10 'Snarleyow'

3:09

11 The Widow at Windsor

2:36

12 Belts

3:38

13 The Young British Soldier

6:38

14 Mandalay

3:59

15 Troopin'

2:40

16 The Widow's Party

2:47

17 Ford o' Kabul River

2:53

18 Gentlemen Rankers

3:47

19 Route Marchin'

4:44

20 Shillin' a Day

1:28

21 'Bobs'

3:14

22 'Back to the Army Again'

3:37

23 'Birds of Prey' March

2:36

24 'Soldier an' Salor Too'

3:55

25 Sappers

5:01

26 That Day

2:38

27 'The Men that fought at Minden'

3:18

28 Cholera Camp

3:53

29 The Ladies

3:37

30 Bill 'Awkins

1:31

31 The Mother-Lodge

2:49

32 'Follow Me 'Ome'

2:23

33 The Sergeant's Weddin'

2:30

34 The Jacket

4:29

35 The 'Eathen

5:09

36 The Shut-Eye Sentry

4:12

37 'Mary, Pity Women!'

2:37

38 For to Admire

3:16

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