One Night In Bangkok lyrics Lyrics

song lyrics One Night In Bangkok (bonus Track) lyrics 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 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 sliding 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 Whaddya mean? Ya 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 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 queens we use would not excite you So you 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 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 song lyrics