One Night in Bangkok

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, but don't you know that when you
 Play at this level, it's no ordinary venue
 It's Iceland
 Or the Philippines
 Or Hastings
 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?
 Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town, you -
 Tea girls, warm, sweet (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
 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
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 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
 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 parlors
 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 slidin' 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