The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24426 Message #3305701
Posted By: Lighter
10-Feb-12 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling)
The Kipling website identifies "lookin' eastward" as "the original version" in stanza 1 :
http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_mandalay1.htm
"Lookin' lazy" seems always to have been the phrase in the final stanza.