One Night In Bangkok

Verse:   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 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 gol-den cloister And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she   I can feel an angel sliding up to me Verse: 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 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 Solo: 3rd Verse: 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   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 gol-den cloister A little flesh a little histo-ry     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