One night in Bangkok
Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a show with everything but Yul Brynner, ya know?
Time flies - doesn't seem a minute
since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change -- don't you know
when you play at this level there's no ordinary venue
It's Iceland -- or the Philippines --
or Hastings -- or -- or this place!
CHORUS:
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 me
One town's very like another
when your head's down over your pieces, brother
BACKING VOCALISTS:
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
MIKE TYSON:
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --
BACKING VOCALISTS:
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
CHORUS:
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 walking 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
And 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 kind of queens we use, they just won't excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlors -- cause we're not having it!
CHORUS:
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 sliding 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 walking next to me
