The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (song)

"The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" (originally titled "The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo") is a popular British music hall song published in 1891 by Fred Gilbert, a theatrical agent who had begun to write comic songs as a sideline some twenty years previously.

[3][4] Wells was reported to have won one-and-a-half million francs[5] at the Monte Carlo casino, using the profits from previous fraud.

The song title inspired the 1935 US romantic comedy The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.

In Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop, evidently knowing the song but not having understood the lyrics properly, spends time in Monte Carlo fruitlessly looking for the Bois de Boulogne.

In the 2017 film Alien: Covenant, in mimicry of his idol Lawrence of Arabia, the android David sings the words of the song's title while he is cutting his own hair in the mirror.

I stay indoors 'til after lunch, and then my daily walk To the great Triumphal Arch is one grand triumphal march, Observed by each observer with the keenness of a hawk, I'm a mass of money, linen, silk and starch - I'm a mass of money, linen, silk and starch.

Chorus I patronised the tables at the Monte Carlo hell Till they hadn't got a sou for a Christian or a Jew; So I quickly went to Paris for the charms of mad'moiselle, Who's the lodestone of my heart – what can I do, When with twenty tongues she swears that she'll be true?