The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11643   Message #1149484
Posted By: Joe_F
29-Mar-04 - 06:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling, Speaks)
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: On The Road To Mandalay
In the text as printed in _Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition_ (Doubleday, 1940) the first line has "lookin' lazy at the sea" (not "eastward"), same as in the last stanza. Is that, in fact, what Kipling wrote? And if so, who changed it to "eastward", and why? There are enough geographical difficulties with this song as it was.