听歌学英语:One night in Bangkok

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年轻的乐团C21来自遥远的北欧童话之国，很快就成为了流行音乐的新贵，进而引领流行乐坛新潮流。今天我们要学习他们带来的一首歌唱曼谷夜生活的歌曲：One night in Bangkok，（曼谷一夜），这首歌的歌词幽默并富有哲理，旋律也相当地优美动人。

Bangkok, Oriental setting
　　And the city don't know that the city is getting
　　The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
　　Show with everything but Yul Brynner

　　Time flies - doesn't seem a minute
　　Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
　　All change - don't you know that when you
　　Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

　　It's Iceland... or the Philippines... or Hastings... or... or this place!

　　One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
　　The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
　　You'll find a god in every golden cloister
　　And if you're lucky then the god's a she
　　I can feel an angel sliding up to me

　　One town's very like another
　　When your head's down over your pieces, brother

　　It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
　　To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

　　Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town...

　　Tea, girls, warm, sweet, sweet
　　Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

　　Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
　　Whose every move's among the purest
　　I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

　　One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
　　Not much between despair and ecstasy
　　One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
　　Can't be too careful with your company
　　I can feel the devil walking next to me

　　Siam's gonna be the witness
　　To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
　　This grips me more than would a
　　Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

　　And thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it

　　I don't see you guys rating
　　The kind of mate I'm contemplating
　　I'd let you watch, I would invite you
　　But the queens we use would not excite you

　　So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours

　　One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
　　The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
　　You'll find a god in every golden cloister
　　A little flesh, a little history
　　I can feel an angel sliding up to me

　　One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
　　Not much between despair and ecstasy
　　One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
　　Can't be too careful with your company
　　I can feel the devil walking next to me