If you want to get through Simply play the bourgeois fool Let a camera hang on your arm Hide away your bamboo flute Go and buy a brand new suit Smile at the guard and stand poised with charm Bureaucrats, visas, passport control Frontier troubles wherever you go Gates of Tangiers are going to close Because your pockets are loaded with holes ♪ There is another point I know Comb your hair before you go Or the guard says go back to where you're from Pretty men in authority Deport each gypsy They say it's nice in the town of Tetouan Bureaucrats, visas, passport control Frontier troubles wherever you go Gates of Tangiers are going to close Because your pockets are loaded with holes Bureaucrats, visas, passport control Frontier troubles wherever you go Gates of Tangiers are going to close Because your pockets are loaded with holes ♪ So if you want to get through Have a bit of a bourgeois cool Let a camera hang on your arm