Chess - One Night In Bangkok Lyrics
Bangkok, Oriental cityAnd the city don't know that the city is gettingThe creme de la creme of the chess world in aShow with everything but Yul BrynnerBangkok, just another stop inThe chess world circus-masters drop inPlay, checkmate, check out and then youMove on to another venueLike Iceland -- or the Philippines -- orHastings -- or -- or this place!One night in Bangkok and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples but the pearls ain't freeYou'll find a god in every golden cloisterAnd if you're lucky then the god's a sheI can feel an angel sliding up to meOne town's very like anotherWhen your head's down over your pieces, brotherIt's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pityTo be looking at the board, not looking at the city.Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded,Polluted, stinking town, ya seen 'em all.Tea, girls, warm and sweetSome are set up in the Somerset Maugham suiteGet Thai'd! You're talking to a touristWhose every move's among the purest.I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshineOne night in Bangkok makes a hard man humbleNot much between despair and ecstasyOne night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumbleCan't be too careful with your companyI can feel the devil walking next to meSiam's gonna be the witnessTo the ultimate test of cerebral fitnessThis grips me more than would aMuddy old river or reclining Buddha.I don't see you guys ratingThe kind of mate I'm contemplatingI'd let you watch, I would invite youBut the queens we use would not excite you.So you better go back to your bars, yourTemples, your massage parlours...One night in Bangkok and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples but the pearls ain't freeYou'll find a god in every golden cloisterA little flesh, a little historyI can feel an angel sliding up to me.One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humbleNot much between despair and ecstasyOne night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumbleCan't be too careful with your companyI can feel the devil walking next to me
