The Bab Ballads

The Bab Ballads is a collection of light verses by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. The book takes its title from Gilbert's childhood nickname. He later began to sign his illustrations "Bab". Gilbert wrote the "ballads" collected in the book before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing these verses Gilbert developed his "topsy-turvy" style in which the humour is derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The ballads also reveal Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humour.

They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert recycled in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. They were read aloud at private dinner-parties, at public banquets and even in the House of Lords. The ballads have been much published, and some have been recorded or otherwise adapted.

By : W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)

01 - Captain Reece



02 - The Rival Curates



03 - Only A Dancing Girl



04 - General John



05 - To A Little Maid - By A Policeman



06 - John and Freddy



07 - Sir Guy The Crusader



08 - Haunted



09 - The Bishop And The 'Busman



10 - The Troubadour



11 - Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman



12 - Lorenzo De Lardy



13 - Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast



14 - Babette's Love



15 - To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be)



16 - The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent



17 - Sir Macklin



18 - The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell



19 - The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo



20 - The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale



21 - To Phoebe



22 - Baines Carew, Gentleman



23 - Thomas Winterbottom Hance



24 - The Reverend Micah Sowls



25 - A Discontented Sugar Broker



26 - The Pantomime Super to His Mask



27 - The Force Of Argument



28 - The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin



29 - The Phantom Curate. A Fable



30 - The Sensation Captain



31 - Tempora Mutantur



32 - At A Pantomime. By a Bilious One



33 - King Borria Bungalee Boo



34 - The Periwinkle Girl



35 - Thomson Green and Harriet Hale



36 - Bob Polter



37 - The Story Of Prince Agib



38 - Ellen McJones Aberdeen



39 - Peter The Wag



40 - Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum



41 - The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo



42 - Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter



43 - To The Terrestrial Globe. By a Miserable Wretch



44 - Gentle Alice Brown

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