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"On the Road to Mandalay" is a song by Oley Speaks with text by Rudyard Kipling. Oley Speaks set to music a portion of Kipling's poem Mandalay, 1890, from Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, published in 1892 and 1896. The song comprises three verses of Kipling's poem: the first, second, and sixth. The text of the song is a first-person description by a British soldier in 19th-century Burma, who has returned to Britain. He describes his romance with a "Burma girl" and speaks of the emotional pull he experiences to return to Mandalay.