The American: 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!
Company: 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
The American: One town's very like another When your head's down over your pieces, brother
Company: 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
The American: Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
Company: Tea, girls, warm, sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
The American: Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist Whose every move's among the purest I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
Company: 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
The American: 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
Company: 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