Bangkok (One Night In Bangkok)

[THE AMERICAN]
Bangkok! Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The crème de la crème 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 Phillipines--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.

[THE AMERICAN]
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother.

[Chorus:]
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--

[Chorus:]
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 purist
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.

[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 queen's we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your
Temples, your massage parlors...

[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.