On the Road to Mandalay.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. Mar 2001.

By the old Moulmein Pagoda
lookin' eastward to the sea,

There's a Burma girl a~settin'
and I know she thinks of 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,

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,

And the dawn comes up like thunder
out of China 'crost the bay.

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'
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 you 'ear 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 'crost the bay.

Soft karaoke
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On The Road To Mandalay 2nd version seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 21 Mar 2001

On The Road To Mandalay 2nd version seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 21 Mar 2001
music by Oley Speaks
From 'Barrack Room Ballads'
by Rudyard Kipling
sequenced for Ian Cousins
by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 21 Mar 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones
This is the shortened version and possibly more
politically correct