Bangkok,
oriental setting
and the city
don't know what 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