Bangkok, Oriental setting <br />And the city don't know what the city is getting <br />The creme de la creme of the chess world <br />In a 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 <br />Or Hastings or, or this place <br /> <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 />One town's very like another <br />When your head's down over your pieces, Brother <br /> <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 />Whaddya mean? <br />Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town <br /> <br />Tea girls, warm and sweet, warm, sweet <br />Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Suite <br /> <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 />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 />Siam's gonna be the witness <br />To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness <br />This grips me more than would <br />A muddy old river or Reclining Buddha <br /> <br />But 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 <br />Your massage parlors <br /> <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 slidin' 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
