Chords for On The Road To Mandalay performed by John Roberts and Tony Barrand

_ _ _ _ No, but [G] _
[B] Andy just came out and introduced us.
_ _ I've been wanting to do that for years.
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
Yeah
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_ _ Okay _ _ _ _
_ You [Ab] _ _ you're gonna sing this one so you get to introduce [G] the song. _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] Thank [Bb] you
_ [E] _ Please join the [Bb]
chorus _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ By [A] the old [Bb] main pagoda _
Looking _ lazy at [Eb] the sea
_ _ [Bb] There [D] sits a [Bb] little Burma girl, and I know she thinks [F] of me
_ [Bb] For the wind is in the palm trees and the temple bells do [Cm] say _
[Bbm] Come your back [D] your British [G] soldier [Bb] _ come your back to _
Mandalay _ come you back to Mandalay _ _ where the old
Flotilla [Eb] lay _ can't [Bb] you hear [D] those [Eb] paddles [Bb] chunking from _ Rangoon to _ [F] _
Mandalay?
[C] on the [Bb] road to Mandalay
_ _ Where the flying _ fishes [Eb] play _ [Dm]
and the [Eb] dawn comes up [Bb] like thunder _ out to [Cm] China
[Bb] _ across the bay a
_ [D] _ _
[B] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
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Petty coat was yellow and her little cap was [Eb] green _ and her [Bb] name was
[D] _ [Bb] Soupy your lap just the same as the balls [F] Queen _ [Bb] and I see the first
_ Smoking on a whacking white [Eb] _ cheroot and [Gm] a [D] wasting Christian [Bb] kisses _ on an
[A] Eden _ [F]
idols [Bb] foot
_ Blooming Idol made of mud what they called the great gourd [Eb] bud _
[Bb] Plucky lot [D] she cared [F] for [Bb] idols when I kissed her where [F] she stood [A] on the road [Bb] to _ Mandalay
_ Where the flying _ [Eb] fishes play _
And the dawn comes up [Bb] like [Dm] thunder out [Eb] of China [Bb] _ cross the bay
[F] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] When the mist was on the rice fields _ and the sun was [Dm] dropping [Eb] slow
_ _ [Bb] She get [D] a little [Gm] _
[Bb] banjo and we'd [C] sing _
_ Koolalolo _ [F] with [Bb] her arm upon me shoulder and her cheek again me [Eb] cheek
We [Bb] used [D] to watch the _ [Bb]
steamers and the Hatties pile [Bb]
in teak
_ _ _ Elephants a pile in teak in that sludgy
_ [Eb] Squirgy creek where the [D] silence _ hung [G] so heavy _ you was [Bb] half afraid [F] to speak
_ [Ab] on the [Bb] _ road to Mandalay
_ _ Where the flying fishes [D] play _ [Eb] and the dawn comes up [Bb] like thunder out [Cm] of China
[Bb] _ cross the bay
_ _ _ [D] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ But that's all shoved behind me _ _
Long ago and _ [Eb] far away
For [Bb] there aren't [D] no [Gm] buses [Bb] running from [Eb] the bank [Bb] to _ [G] Mandalay
_ And I'm [Bb]
learning here in London _ what the ten-year soldier [Eb] tells _
_ When you've [D] heard the Easter [Bb] calling you won't never read nor tells _ no you won't eat nothing else
_ But them _ spicy [Eb] garlic smells _ and the [D] sunshine [Bb] and the palm trees and them
_ Tinkly [F] temple _ bells [Bb] on the road to Mandalay
_ Where the flying [Gm] fishes _ [Eb] play and the dawn comes up like [Bb] _
thunder out of [Cm] China
[Bb] _
cross the bay _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] am _ [Bb] sick of wasting leather _ on these gritty paving [Eb] stones _ and
The [Gm] _ blasted English [Bb] drizzle _ wakes the [Bb] fever in [F] me bones
_ [Bb]
Though I walks with 50 _ housemates out of Chelsea to the [Eb] strand
Where they [Ab] _ [D] talks a lot of [Bb] loving but what do [F] they _ understand? _ _
Beefy face and grubby hands
_ Lord, what do they [Eb] understand?
_ _ I've [Bb] a [D] sweeter _ [Eb] neater [Bb] maiden in a cleaner _ [F] greener land
[Bb] on the road to _ Mandalay
_ _ Where the flying _ [Eb] fishes play _ and the dawn comes up [Bb] like thunder out [Cm] of China
[Bb] _ cross the _ [Am] bay
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ _
[Bb] _ Ship me _ _
Somewhere's east of Suez _ where the best is like [Eb] the worst
Where [Bb] there aren't [D] no [Eb] Ten _ [Bb]
Commandments and [G] a man [Bb] can raise [F] a thirst
For [Bb] the temple bells are calling _ and it's there that I [Eb] would be _
by [Bb] the old [D] mall main [Bb] pagoda
_ Looking _ lazy at [Bb] the sea _ on [A] the [Bb] _
road to Mandalay
_ _ Where the flying [Eb] fishes play _ with our sick [Gm] beneath the [Bb] audience _ when [Dm] we went [Bb] to
_ [F] _ Mandalay _ _ on [Bb] the _ road to _ Mandalay
_ Where the [Gm] flying fishes _ [Eb] play _ and the dawn comes up [Bb] like thunder _ [Cm] out of [G] China
_ _ [F] _ cross [Bb] the bay _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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The road to Mandalay was nothing like I-91 _ _ _ _
The road to Mandalay was the Irrawaddy River
_ _ _ That went up and you can't actually from _ Mandalay
_ _ _ See China out of because there's no Bay there.
It's just a river
_ _ so but the bay where the estuary to the Irrawaddy is
_ _ _ You can see China
_ _ _ Can you?
_ _ apparently _ _ _ _
_ Says so in a book John.
Well, it says so in a book, but I think that's fake news myself.
_ _ I don't know
_ _ Thank You.
Mr.
President
_ _ _ _ We
That _ _ _ particular song was for those of you who may not know because it was a long time ago that
Mr.
Kipling was a former resident of
_ _ _ _ Brattleboro, of course and _ _ _ _
_ _ Tune was set by Peter Bellamy who was an occasional visitor _ _