A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anchored using guy ropes tied to stakes or tent pegs. First used as portable homes by nomadic peoples, tents are now more often used for recreational camping and temporary shelters.
Tents range in size from "bivouac" structures, just big enough for one person to sleep in up to huge circus tents capable of seating thousands of people. The bulk of this article is concerned with tents used for recreational camping which have sleeping space for one to ten people. Larger tents are discussed in a separate section below.
Tents for recreational camping fall into two categories. Tents intended to be carried by backpackers are the smallest and lightest type. Smaller tents may be sufficiently light that they can be carried for long distances on a touring bicycle, a boat, or when backpacking. The military organizations of most nations use such tents to temporarily house troops living and working under field conditions.
So you've no rejection
Shall we say with the ladies?
Well, uh, sometimes I want to
All right, all right, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
I'm gonna get you in my tent, tent, tent, tent, tent
Where we can both experiment, ment, ment, ment, ment
Yeah, yay, it's so convenient, ent, ent, ent, ent
Let's take a taxi through my tent
Oh, yay, my love is so inscrutable
In a stoic sort of way
But, by baby, it's as beautiful
As a tourniquet
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
I'm gonna, I'm gonna get you in my tent, tent, tent, tent, tent
Whoa, whoa, it's only common sense sense sense
I know that you won't mind the stench, stench, stench of the sacrament
I won't let this love destroy her, I can't control this paranoia
I'll have to get a show biz lawyer to stop me
Kill smash smash thrill spill drive fight bite trap scream tear
Scritch, shout
Tent, tent, tent, tent
You'll be laughing like a lunatic
That just got away
Howling like a hypocrite
At an auto-da-fe
I'm gonna get you in my tent tent, tent, tent, tent
We'll find out where the woozle went, went, went, went, went
We'll fill his footprints with cement, ment, ment, ment
(Hofstede)
He spent his nights
On camping sites
Can this sun tan
Make him a man
He's in one of the tents
She's in one of the tent tent tent tent
(Camping gaz)
(Can can vas)
(Pins and poles)
(Tins in holes)
You're frightened of
My freckles love
Can this sun tan
Make him a man
(Camping gaz)
(Can can vas)
(Radio noise)
Here she comes
There she goes