Frank Sinatra & The Red Norvo Quintet - On the Road to Mandalay lyrics

By the old Moulmein Pagoda Looking Eastward to the sea There's a Burma broad a-settin' And I know she's got a yen for me And 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 you hear their paddles chonkin' 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 Ship me somewhere East of Suez Where the best is just like the worst And there ain't no Ten Commandments And a guy, he can raise a thirst And those crazy bells keep ringing 'Cause it's there that I long to be By the moon made pagoda Lookin' eastward to the sea Lookin' eastward to the sea Come you back to Mandalay Where the old Flotilla lay Can't you hear their paddles chonkin' From Rangoon to Mandalay, ooh On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play And the dawn comes up like thunder