[04:50.00]Bangkok, Oriental Setting
[04:50.00]But the city don't know what the city is getting
[04:50.00]The crème de la crème of the chess world
[04:50.00]In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
[04:50.00]Time flies – doesn't seem a minute
[04:50.00]since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
[04:50.00]All changed, don't you know that when you
[04:50.00]Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
[04:50.00]It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings
[04:50.00]Or …
[04:50.00]Or this place!
[04:50.00]One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
[04:50.00]The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free
[04:50.00]You'll find a god in every golden cloister
[04:50.00]And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
[04:50.00]I can feel an angel slidin' up to me
[04:50.00]One town's very like another
[04:50.00]When your head's down over your pieces, brother
[04:50.00]It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
[04:50.00]To be looking at the board not looking at the city
[04:50.00]Whattaya mean?!
[04:50.00]You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
[04:50.00]Tea girls, warm and sweet (warm, sweet)
[04:50.00]Some are set up
[04:50.00]In the Somerset Maugham suite
[04:50.00]Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
[04:50.00]Whose every move's among the purest:
[04:50.00]"I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine"
[04:50.00]One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
[04:50.00]Not much between despair and ecstasy
[04:50.00]One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
[04:50.00]Can't be too careful with your company
[04:50.00]I can feel the devil walking next to me
[04:50.00]Siam's gonna be the witness
[04:50.00]To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
[04:50.00]This grips me more than would a muddy old river
[04:50.00]Or reclining Buddha
[04:50.00]But Thank God I'm only watching the game
[04:50.00]Controlling it
[04:50.00]I don't see you guys rating
[04:50.00]The kind of mate I'm contemplating
[04:50.00]I'd let you watch, I would invite you
[04:50.00]But the queens we use would not excite you
[04:50.00]So, you better go back to your bars,
[04:50.00]Your temples, your massage parlors
[04:50.00]One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
[04:50.00]The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free
[04:50.00]You'll find a god in every golden cloister
[04:50.00]A little flesh, a little history
[04:50.00]I can feel an angel slidin' up to me
[04:50.00]One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
[04:50.00]Not much between despair and ecstasy
[04:50.00]One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
[04:50.00]Can't be too careful with your company
[04:50.00]I can feel the devil walking next to me