One Night In Bangkok

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



Bangkok, Oriental setting 

And the city don't know that the city is getting 

The creme de la creme 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 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 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 



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 parlours -- 



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