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Lyrics by: Rudyard Kipling
Written by: Oley Speaks
Arranged by: Billy May
From the Album: Come Fly With Me (1958)
Live
In Australia with the Red Norvo Quintet
Label: Capitol Records
Recorded: October 1, 1957
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By the old Moulmein Pagoda
lookin' eastward to the sea
There's a Burma broad a'settin'
and I know she thinks of me
For the wind is in those palm
trees and the temple bells, they say
"Come you back, you British
soldier"
"Come you back to
Mandalay"
"Come you back to
Mandalay"
"Come you back to Mandalay where
the old flotilla lay"
"Can't ya hear their
paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?"
On the road to Mandalay where
the flyin' fishes play
And the dawn comes up like thunder out of China 'cross the bay
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez
where the best is like the worst
Where there ain't no Ten
Commandments and a cat can raise a thirst
'cause those crazy bells are
callin' and it's there that I would be
By the old Moulmein Pagoda
lookin' lazy at the sea
Lookin' lazy at
the sea
"Come you back to Mandalay
where the old flotilla lay"
"Can't ya hear their
paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?"
On the road to Mandalay where
the flyin' fishes play
And the dawn comes up
like thunder......