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.