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Bangkok / One Night In Bangkok Lyrics by Murray Head

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[Part I: Bangkok]
[Instrumental]
[Part II: One Night in Bangkok]
[THE AMERICAN]
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 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!
[ENSEMBLE]
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
[THE AMERICAN]
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother
[ENSEMBLE]
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
[THE AMERICAN]
What do you mean?
You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town—
[ENSEMBLE]
Tea, girls, warm and sweet (Warm, sweet)
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
[THE AMERICAN]
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
[ENSEMBLE]
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
[Instrumental Break]
[THE AMERICAN]
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'd better go back to your bars, your temples
Your massage parlours—
[ENSEMBLE]
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
Credits
Murray Head

Murray Head

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