On the road to Mandalay - Frank Sinatra

"look eastward to the sea"?
"to china across the bay"???
jesus, old blue eyes wasn't old crash hot with an atlas was he?

If you go to Mandalay now, you would be overwhelmed by Chinamen!

This is actively bad. It has nothing to do with Rudyard Kipling or his sensibilities. I say this as an American. What do the Brits say? Thanks, Koalkracker.

So actively bad its a classic (or an antique). Just prooves even old blue eyes sometimes got it wrong. I also admit I never liked the original poem as it is patronising (to put it mildly). Probably considered good in 1907 when we in Britain thought we had a divine right to rule half the world. Wonderful pictures though.

Disley is right. We have benefitted from this colonization by the British as it brought us and gave us some modernization and efficient civil service by bringing in lots of civil servants from India. But the Brits have a very evil trait which is their mode of management - DIVIDE AND RULE- they would put the Burmese against the ethnic races like the Shans, Kachins, Kayins, Chins, Yakhine, etc. Very similar to the way they put the muslims against the Hindus in India, one of their former colonies.

Just Beautiful!

Heard this first on Sinatra'a album Come Fly With Me, way back in the mid-fifties.

It's the most original version of the song ever. And a classic. So glad to have found it on YouTube.

And the ending! Simply fabulous...

This version just doesn't work for me at all - " a Burma BROAD a Settin' for goodness sake!!!!!!!!! I love this song and I also like a lot of Frank Sinatras stuff, but together... Sorry, it's awful!!!
Nice pics though...

Ha haa!