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Barrack-Room Ballads

Barrack-Room Ballads

The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet.


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“I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time.”

The Ladies, Stanza I.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

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“They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,
An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin.”

Danny Deever, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

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Rudyard Kipling photo
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