ROAD TO MANDALAY
BURMA IN THE NEWS A TOPICAL PARODY With the Burma road so much in the news a new angle is given to Kipling's famous verse. Perhaps had the great poet been alive to-day he might have written it thus: —■ To the old 1 Chinese headquarters, lying inland from the sea, There's a Burma Road we've heard of, and it calls to you and me. For the wind is in the palm trees and the temple bells they say, Come j 7 ou back you British soldier, come you back to Mandalay. On the road from Mandalay, to where the waiting lorries lay, Can't you hear the Chinese calling, from Kunming to Mandalay, On the road to Mandalay, where the. flying bombers play, And the war comes up like thunder, outer China, 'crossi the way.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 55, 20 May 1942, Page 5
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137ROAD TO MANDALAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 55, 20 May 1942, Page 5
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