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 best-known works, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. First collected in 1892, these famous poems by Kipling portray the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the British Empire. Taking Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 ballad ‘Mandalay’ as a critical turning point, it influenced Western perceptions of Burma. The popular “Mandalay” of June 1890, well-known, perhaps, as it is set to rousing, singable tunes….. Probably his greatest successes in verse at this early period were the poems about private soldiers, notably in Barrack-Room Ballads, where he used the Tommies’ vernacular. Musical score has 6 pages, in good condition