2006-07-31 05:58:56 · 3 answers · asked by Trigger 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I think Mandalay was in Burma.
2006-07-31 06:11:10 · answer #1 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Apparently, Mandalay is the second city of Burma...
Here's the full poem;
http://www.roadtomandalay.com/MyanmarMiscellany/mandalay.htm
(Although if you don't understand cockney slang you might not know what the heck he's talking about - and I don't mean rhyming slang either...!)
As for what it means, I haven't read it deeply enough to be sure, but it's about longing and yearning for what's past and gone. It seems that - on the surface at least - the narrator was a soldier, and amid much suffering he went to Mandalay, fell in love ... and now that he's back in drizzly old London he longs to return to Mandalay.
2006-07-31 13:51:13 · answer #2 · answered by _ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a movie with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. The misadventures of two idiots on the way to Mandalay.
2006-07-31 06:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋