Barrack-Room Ballads
Rudyard Kipling
39 chapters · 2 h 13 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, Peter Yearsley, KHand, dc, Adrian Stephens, czandra and others
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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
1 Dedication 1 min 2 Danny Deever 3 min 3 Tommy 4 min 4 Fuzzy-Wuzzy 3 min 5 Soldier, Soldier 3 min 6 Screw-Guns 5 min 7 Cells 2 min 8 Gunga Din 4 min 9 Oonts 3 min 10 Loot 6 min 11 'Snarleyow' 3 min 12 The Widow at Windsor 3 min 13 Belts 4 min 14 The Young British Soldier 7 min 15 Mandalay 4 min 16 Troopin' 3 min 17 The Widow's Party 3 min 18 Ford o' Kabul River 3 min 19 Gentlemen Rankers 4 min 20 Route Marchin' 5 min 21 Shillin' a Day 1 min 22 'Bobs' 3 min 23 'Back to the Army Again' 4 min 24 'Birds of Prey' March 3 min 25 'Soldier an' Salor Too' 4 min 26 Sappers 5 min 27 That Day 3 min 28 'The Men that fought at Minden' 3 min 29 Cholera Camp 4 min 30 The Ladies 4 min 31 Bill 'Awkins 2 min 32 The Mother-Lodge 3 min 33 'Follow Me 'Ome' 2 min 34 The Sergeant's Weddin' 2 min 35 The Jacket 4 min 36 The 'Eathen 5 min 37 The Shut-Eye Sentry 4 min 38 'Mary, Pity Women!' 3 min 39 For to Admire 3 min
