Song | The Tourist |
Artist | Ray Davies |
Album | Other People's Lives |
The natives are getting restless in the tropical heat | |
Work is scarce and children play while the dogs fight in the street | |
And in the hotels all the tourists dine on local fare | |
While the waiters stand and stare | |
And in the street taxi cabs crawl around for vice | |
To the sound of the tourists in the casino | |
Rattling the dice | |
Money, money | |
I'm just another tourist checking out the slums | |
With my plastic | |
Visa, drinking with my chums | |
I dance and swing while | |
Abba singAnd | |
I flash my | |
Platinum to the sound of, “ | |
Livin' La | |
Vida Loca” | |
Yes, “Livin' | |
La Vida Loca” | |
While in the heat of the street | |
The native beats his drum | |
Take the money 'cause it's just another tourist | |
Havin' lots of fun | |
Oh, let's go to the | |
Mardi Gras | |
Oh, let's kiss the | |
Blarney Stone | |
Oh, let's hear the | |
Wailing Wall | |
Oh, the Empire | |
State is so very tall | |
And the Taj | |
Mahal really has a pretty dome | |
And everywhere that | |
I go, I say | |
I want to make it my home | |
I'm just another tourist checking out the slums | |
With my plastic | |
Visa, drinking with my chums | |
Money, money |
The natives are getting restless in the tropical heat | |
Work is scarce and children play while the dogs fight in the street | |
And in the hotels all the tourists dine on local fare | |
While the waiters stand and stare | |
And in the street taxi cabs crawl around for vice | |
To the sound of the tourists in the casino | |
Rattling the dice | |
Money, money | |
I' m just another tourist checking out the slums | |
With my plastic | |
Visa, drinking with my chums | |
I dance and swing while | |
Abba singAnd | |
I flash my | |
Platinum to the sound of, " | |
Livin' La | |
Vida Loca" | |
Yes, " Livin' | |
La Vida Loca" | |
While in the heat of the street | |
The native beats his drum | |
Take the money ' cause it' s just another tourist | |
Havin' lots of fun | |
Oh, let' s go to the | |
Mardi Gras | |
Oh, let' s kiss the | |
Blarney Stone | |
Oh, let' s hear the | |
Wailing Wall | |
Oh, the Empire | |
State is so very tall | |
And the Taj | |
Mahal really has a pretty dome | |
And everywhere that | |
I go, I say | |
I want to make it my home | |
I' m just another tourist checking out the slums | |
With my plastic | |
Visa, drinking with my chums | |
Money, money |