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Book: Barrack-room Ballads

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  • Belts
    There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,
    Between an Irish regiment an' English cavalree;
    50 lines
  • Cells
    I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick:
    I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick,
    38 lines, 2 comments
  • Gunga Din
    You may talk o' gin and beer
    When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
    90 lines, 13 comments
  • The Conundrum Of The Workshops
    When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
    Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
    34 lines
  • Mandalay
    By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea,
    There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
    57 lines, 5 comments
  • The Widow At Windsor
    'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
    With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
    45 lines
  • Route Marchin'
    We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,
    A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains;
    58 lines
  • The Lament OF The Border Cattle Thief
    O woe is me for the merry life
    I led beyond the Bar,
    60 lines
  • The Ballad Of East And West
    Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
    Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment
    103 lines, 1 comment
  • The Last Suttee
    Not many years ago a King died in one of the Rajpoot States. His wives, disregarding the orders of the English against Suttee, would have broken out of the p
    115 lines
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