Barrack-Room Ballads

The Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896. Many have become classic military ditties, still well known, and are closely linked to British imperialism in many minds, particularly "Gunga Din", "Tommy" and "Danny Deever".

Poems

First series (1892)

• Dedication: To T.A.
• Danny Deever
• Tommy
• Fuzzy-Wuzzy
• Soldier, Soldier
• Screw-Guns
• Cells
• Gunga Din
• Oonts
• Loot
• Snarleyow
• The Widow at Windsor
• Belts
• The Young British Soldier
• Mandalay
• Troopin'
• The Widow's Party
• Ford o' Kabul River
• Gentlemen-Rankers
• Route Marchin'
• Shillin' a Day

Second Series (1896)

• Bobs
• "Back to the Army Again"
• "Birds of Prey" March
• "Soldier an; Sailor Too"
• Sappers
• That Day
• "The Men that fought at Minden"
• Cholera Camp
• The Ladies
• Bill 'Awkins
• The Mother Lodge
• "Follow Me 'Ome"
• The Sergeant's Weddin'
• The Jacket
• The 'Eathen
• The Shut-Eye Sentry
• "Mary, Pity Women!"
• For to Admire

See also

• List of the works of Rudyard Kipling
• 1892 in poetry
• 1896 in poetry
• The Whiffenpoof Song (adapted from Gentlemen-Rankers)

External links

• Barrack-Room Ballads - Free e-book #2819 at Project Gutenberg