One Night In Bangkok

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