One Night In Bangkok

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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.

Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner.

Bangkok, just another stop
On the chess world circus - Masters drop in
Play, checkmate, check out and then you
Move on to another venue.

Like Iceland - or the Philippines - or Hastings - or - or this place!

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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.

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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, you've seen.

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Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Suite.

Get Thai'd! You're taking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

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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 in cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha.

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 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.