There's a song called The Road To Mandalay that was a hit once upon a time for Frank Sinatra with lyrics by one Oley Speaks (1874-1948). It also had a little bit of help from a poem by Rudyard Kipling ...

"On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay." -- Rudyard Kipling. Kipling only visited Burma for two nights and a day, just a ...