Bangkok
Oriental setting
And the city don't know
what the city is getting
The crème de la crème
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
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 you're lucky
then the god's a she
I can feel an angel
slidin' up to me
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
What do you mean
You've seen one crowded
polluted stinking town
Tea girls
warm and 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
walkin' next to me
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
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 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 golden cloister
A little flesh
a little history
I can feel an angel
slidin' 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
walkin' next to me