But that bloody dawn coming up like thunder is driving me crackers

[sovay]

Oley Speaks' popular setting of "Mandalay" and Kurt Weill's "Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib" are melodically similar enough that I can sing them interleavingly, but not such that I think, even taking into account Brecht's well-tracked admiration for Kipling, it means anything.

This has been your useless realization for the night.

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The one I find myself falling into is:

How are things in Glocca Morra?
There's a way, said the wise old man...

Nine