One night in bangkok
by Global Deejays
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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!
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
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
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 queens we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours --
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
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!
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
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
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 queens we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours --
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
