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Barrack-Room Ballads

By Rudyard Kipling

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Cover: Remnants of an Army (1879), oil on canvas by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler (1846-1933) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (published before 1930)

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.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  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