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.
Times 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? You`ve seen one crowded polluted stinking town...
Tea, girls, warm, sweet, sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite.
Get Thai`d! You`re talking to a tourist Whose every moves`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 Buddah.
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`d 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.