Musicals - Chess - One Night In Bangkok Lyrics
[Verse 1]Bangkok! Oriental settingAnd the city don't know what the city is gettingThe crème de la crème of the chess world in aShow with everything but Yul Brynner[Verse 2]Time flies, doesn't seem a minuteSince the Tyrolean spa had the chess boys in itAll change, but don't you know that when youPlay at this level it's no ordinary venue[Hook]It's Iceland or the Philippines orHastings or this place![Chorus]One night in Bangkok and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples but the pearls aren'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 me[Verse 3]One 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...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, Sunshine.[Chorus]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[Verse 4]Siam's gonna be the witnessTo the ultimate test of cerebral fitnessThis grips me more than would aMuddy old river or reclining Buddha.Thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it.[Verse 5]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...[Chorus]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.[Outro]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
