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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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Oh 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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— Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay.

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Mandalay has its name; the falling cadence of the lovely word has gathered about itself the chiaroscuro of romance.


— 1930  The Gentleman in the Parlour.

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Oh 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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— Mandalay.

Tags: road, flyin'fishes, play, dawn, thunder, outer, China, 'crost, Bay

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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 say: “Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!”

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— Mandalay, Stanza 1.

Tags: old, Moulmein, Pagoda, lookin', eastward, sea, Burma, girl, asettin'

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