On the Road to Mandalay Songtext
von Frank Sinatra

You wish or anyone I don′t care

By the old Moulmein Pagoda
Looking eastward to the sea
There's a Burma gal a settin′
And I know that she got an eye 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, maybe Budapet that time
Where the best is like the worst
And there ain't no Ten Commandments
And a bumb can raise a thirst

And those goddamn bells keep ringing
′Cause it′s there that I long to be
By the egg foo yong pagoda
Looking eastward to the see
Looking eastward to the see

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