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Rh I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

On the road to Mandalay, etc.

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,

Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;

For the temple-bells are callin', and it's there that I would be—

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea.

On the road to Mandalay,

Where the old Flotilla lay,

With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay!

Oh the road to Mandalay,

Where the flyin'-fishes play,

An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!