Artist: Robey <br />Song: One Night in Bangkok <br />Genre: Dance <br />Year: 1985 <br />Language: English <br />Country: Canada <br /> <br />Bangkok, Oriental setting <br />And the city don't know that the city is getting <br />The creme de la creme of the chess world in a <br />Show with everything but Yul Brynner <br /> <br />Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute <br />Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it <br />All change -- don't you know that when you <br />Play at this level there's no ordinary venue <br /> <br />It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or -- <br />or this place! <br /> <br />[COMPANY] <br />One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster <br />The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free <br />You'll find a god in every golden cloister <br />And if you're lucky then the god's a she <br />I can feel an angel sliding up to me <br /> <br />[THE AMERICAN] <br />One town's very like another <br />When your head's down over your pieces, brother <br /> <br />[COMPANY] <br />It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity <br />To be looking at the board, not looking at the city <br /> <br />[THE AMERICAN] <br />Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town -- <br /> <br />[COMPANY] <br />Tea, girls, warm, sweet <br />Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite <br /> <br />[THE AMERICAN] <br />Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist <br />Whose every move's among the purest <br />I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine <br /> <br />[COMPANY] <br />One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble <br />Not much between despair and ecstasy <br />One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble <br />Can't be too careful with your company <br />I can feel the devil walking next to me <br /> <br />[THE AMERICAN] <br />Siam's gonna be the witness <br />To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness <br />This grips me more than would a <br />Muddy old river or reclining Buddha <br /> <br />And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it -- <br /> <br />I don't see you guys rating <br />The kind of mate I'm contemplating <br />I'd let you watch, I would invite you <br />But the queens we use would not excite you <br /> <br />So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage <br />parlours -- <br /> <br />[COMPANY] <br />One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster <br />The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free <br />You'll find a god in every golden cloister <br />A little flesh, a little history <br />I can feel an angel sliding up to me <br /> <br />One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble <br />Not much between despair and ecstasy <br />One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble <br />Can't be too careful with your company <br />I can feel the devil walking next to me
