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May 13, 2011 · Read, review and discuss the Mandalay poem by Rudyard Kipling on Poetry.com.
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Jan 27, 2018 · Blackmore's Night - Way To Mandalay (Official Video) Subscribe to Candice Night: https://goo.gl/DJfCoj The song is taken from the album „Ghost of a Rose“, released June 30th, 2003 - order or...
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Mandalay. By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at 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 say: "Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" Come you back to Mandalay,
"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.
Jun 30, 2003 · Way to Mandalay Lyrics: I wandered down the pathway, through the misty moor / Like I knew he did a thousand times before / Voices seem to echo: "Come talk with me a while / Just around the...
Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
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The poem tells about British soldier, who, quartered in Mandalay, found there freedom, good times and love ('hot' relationship with Asian girl). Then, back on British Islands, he longs for that place, that time.
