8 Comments on On The Road To Mandalay

1. On the road to Mandalay Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst; For the temple-bells are callin', an' it's there that I would be.

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2. On the road to Mandalay Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a .

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3. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Music by Oley Speaks. Publisher. The John Church Company.

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4. On the road to Mandalay But that's all shove be'ind me -- long ago an' fur away, An' there ain't no 'busses runnin' from the Bank to Mandalay; An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells: "If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else." No! you won't 'eed nothin' else But them spicy garlic smells,/5.

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5. Rudyard Kipling, born in India, wrote this famous Road To Mandalay poem soon after annexation of the whole Myanmar. He also wrote several well-known poems and fictions, and was awarded a Nobel prize for literature in His peom 'Mandalay' was adapted for the song 'On the road to Mandalay'.

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6. On the road to Mandalay, Where the flying fishes play, And the dawn comes up like thunder, Out of China, crost the bay.

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7. Lyrics to 'On The Road to Mandalay' by Frank Sinatra. By the old Moulmein Pagoda Looking eastward to the sea There's a Burma gal a settin' And I know that she waits for me.

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8. Mar 23,  · In fact, "On The Road To Mandalay" was Sinatra's second Mandalay song. The first he'd sung four-and-a-half years earlier, on May 2nd , at the beginning of the Capitol era. It was Frank's second recording session with Nelson Riddle, and - after the "ghosting" for Billy May two days earlier - the very first session of Riddle as Riddle, so to speak.

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