Writer(s): kipling/speaks         By the old moulmein pagoda   Looking eastward to the sea   There's a burma gal a settin'   And I know that she waits for me      And the wind is in those palm trees   And the temple bells they say   Come you back you mother soldier   Come you back to mandalay, come you back to mandalay      Come you back to mandalay   Where the old flotilla lay   I can here those paddles chonkin'   From rangoon to mandalay      On the road to mandalay   Where the flying fishes play   And the dawn comes up like thunder   Out of china across the bay      Ship me somewhere east of suez   Where the best is like the worst   And there ain't no ten commandments   And a cat can raise a thirst      And those crazy bells keep ringing   'cause it's there that I long to be   By the egg foo yong pagoda   Looking eastward to the see