bangkok

One Night in Bangkok

The American
Bangkok! Oriental setting
And the city don't know what 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 Hastings - or -
Or this place!

Chorus
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 golden cloister
And if your lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

The American
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother

Chorus
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

The American
Whaddya mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town -

Chorus
Tea girls - warm and sweet - warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

The American
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

Chorus
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

The American
Siam's going to be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river a reclining Buddah

And thank God I'm only watching the game -
controlling it -

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'd better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage palours -

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