"On the Road to Mandalay" — Kipling's soldier's nostalgia, set to music.
Writer(s): kipling/speaks
By the old moulmein pagoda
Looking eastward to the sea
Theres a burma gal a settin
And I know that she waits for me
And the wind is in those palm trees
And the temple bells they say
Come you back you mother soldier
Come you back to mandalay, come you back to mandalay
Come you back to mandalay
Where the old flotilla lay
I can here those paddles chonkin
From rangoon to mandalay
On the road to mandalay
Where the flying fishes play
And the dawn comes up like thunder
Out of china across the bay
Ship me somewhere east of suez
Where the best is like the worst
And there aint no ten commandments
And a cat can raise a thirst
And those crazy bells keep ringing
cause its there that I long to be
By the egg foo yong pagoda
Looking eastward to the see
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- Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem set by Oley Speaks in 1907. The British soldier's memory of Burma — "the road to Mandalay, where the flying fishes play." Sinatra giving the Kipling poem the full romantic treatment.