One Night in Bangkok

Bangkok, Oriental setting And the city don't know that the city is getting The creme de la creme of the chess world In a show with everything but Yul BrynnerTime 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 venueIt'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 sliding up to meOne town's very like another When your head's down over your pieces, brotherIt's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity To be looking at the board, not looking at the cityWhaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking townTea, girls, warm, sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suiteGet thai'd, you're talking to a tourist Whose every move's among the purest I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshineOne 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 walking next to meSiam's gonna be the witness To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness This grips me more than would a Muddy old river or reclining BuddhaAnd thank God I'm only watching the game controlling itI 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 youSo you better go back to your bars, your temples Your massage parloursOne 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 sliding up to meOne 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 walking next to me