Mandalay (poem)
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Mandalay is a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in the collection Barrack Room Ballads, published in 1892.
The Mandalay referred to in this poem was the sometime capital city of Burma, which was a British colony from 1885 to 1947. It mentions the old Moulmein pagoda, Moulmein being the Anglicised version of present-day Mawlamyine.
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Kipling's text was adapted for the song On the Road to Mandalay by Oley Speaks, which was popularised in the album Come Fly with Me by Frank Sinatra. The song uses only the first and last verse of the poem, with the chorus.
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