For All Those who ever played in Alhara...
Here you are....the Classic, One Night in Bangkok, by Murray Head...
...mangled and redone by travelling Bards who went through Helton at the time of the annual Tournament.
Enjoy.
One night in Helton makes a good man evil
Not much in grace or harmony
One night in Helton till the big guys rumble
Can't be too careful with your company
Can't you feel the devil walking next to me?
Helton, desertish setting
But the city don't know what the city is doing
The creme de la creme of the Battle World
In a show with everything but Tak & Jerek.
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the drowish spa had the heroes in it.
Better change, don't you know that when you
Fight in this arena it's no ordinary venue.
It's not Veil, or Razor Canyon, or Maxis
Or...or this place!
One night in Helton and the gold's all yours
The girls are dancers and their pearls aren't free.
You'll find a god in every arch and pore.
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel a deva sliding up to me.
Helton's very like another
When your head's looking down a blade, brother
(It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be looking at a blade, not looking at the city)
Whattaya mean?
You've seen one crowded, lawless desert town...
Gold, girls, incense and oil, sweet
You'll get set up in the Silvered Madeline suite
Get tied, you're talking to a purist
Whose every move's above the truest.
I take my kicks *above* the waistline, sunshine!
One night in Helton makes a good man evil
Not much in grace or harmony
One night in Helton till the big guys rumble
Can't be too careful with your company
Can't you feel the devil walking next to me?
Helton's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of battle fitness.
This grips me more than a hanging garden
or exotic spices.
Thank god I bought the insurance; they'll revive me.
I don't see you guys wielding
The kind of weapon which I am cleaving.
I bet you'd watch; they didn't invite you
And the blades *we* use are sure to gut you.
So you better go back to your shanties, your villages...
Those "massage parlors"...
One night in Helton and the gold's all yours
The girls are dancers and their pearls aren't free.
You'll find a god in every arch and pore.
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel a deva sliding up to me.
One night in Helton makes a good man evil
Not much in grace or harmony
One night in Helton till the big guys rumble
Can't be too careful with your company
Can't you feel the devil walking next to me?
...mangled and redone by travelling Bards who went through Helton at the time of the annual Tournament.
Enjoy.
One night in Helton makes a good man evil
Not much in grace or harmony
One night in Helton till the big guys rumble
Can't be too careful with your company
Can't you feel the devil walking next to me?
Helton, desertish setting
But the city don't know what the city is doing
The creme de la creme of the Battle World
In a show with everything but Tak & Jerek.
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since the drowish spa had the heroes in it.
Better change, don't you know that when you
Fight in this arena it's no ordinary venue.
It's not Veil, or Razor Canyon, or Maxis
Or...or this place!
One night in Helton and the gold's all yours
The girls are dancers and their pearls aren't free.
You'll find a god in every arch and pore.
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel a deva sliding up to me.
Helton's very like another
When your head's looking down a blade, brother
(It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be looking at a blade, not looking at the city)
Whattaya mean?
You've seen one crowded, lawless desert town...
Gold, girls, incense and oil, sweet
You'll get set up in the Silvered Madeline suite
Get tied, you're talking to a purist
Whose every move's above the truest.
I take my kicks *above* the waistline, sunshine!
One night in Helton makes a good man evil
Not much in grace or harmony
One night in Helton till the big guys rumble
Can't be too careful with your company
Can't you feel the devil walking next to me?
Helton's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of battle fitness.
This grips me more than a hanging garden
or exotic spices.
Thank god I bought the insurance; they'll revive me.
I don't see you guys wielding
The kind of weapon which I am cleaving.
I bet you'd watch; they didn't invite you
And the blades *we* use are sure to gut you.
So you better go back to your shanties, your villages...
Those "massage parlors"...
One night in Helton and the gold's all yours
The girls are dancers and their pearls aren't free.
You'll find a god in every arch and pore.
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel a deva sliding up to me.
One night in Helton makes a good man evil
Not much in grace or harmony
One night in Helton till the big guys rumble
Can't be too careful with your company
Can't you feel the devil walking next to me?