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"Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India.
May 13, 2011 · Read, review and discuss the Mandalay poem by Rudyard Kipling on Poetry.com.
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Sep 22, 2008 · Laurence Tibbett - On the Road to Mandalay - YouTube. MusashiTzu. 5.04K subscribers. Subscribed. 562. 141K views 15 years ago. The iconic version, have you ever heard more gusto? ...more.
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On the road to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay, With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay! On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
Oley Speaks set to music a portion of Kipling's poem Mandalay, 1890, from Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, published in 1892 and 1896. The song comprises three verses of Kipling's poem: the first, second and sixth.
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‘Mandalay,’ also known as ‘The Road to Mandalay,’ was written in 1890 and published two years later in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses. Kipling sets the poem in colonial Burma, which was at the time the poem was written, part of British India.
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Mandalay Lyrics. By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they...
