One Night In Bangkok

Bangkok, oriental setting
 And the city don't know that 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 Tyrolean 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
 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, 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
 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 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 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