Bangkok, Oriental settingAnd the city don't know that the city is gettingThe crème de la crème of the chess worldIn a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a minuteSince the Tyrolean spa had the chess boys in itAll change, don't you know thatWhen you play at this level there's no ordinary venue?It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings, orOr this place!
One night in Bangkok, and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples, but the pearls ain't freeYou'll find a god in every golden cloisterAnd if you're lucky then the god's a sheI can feel an angel sliding up to me
One town's very like anotherWhen your head's down over your pieces, brother(It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pityTo be looking at the board, not looking at the city)
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town(Tea, girls, warm, sweetSome are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite)Get Thai'd! You're talking to a touristWhose every move's among the purestI get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humbleNot much between despair and ecstasyOne night in Bangkok, and the tough guys tumbleCan't be too careful with your companyI can feel the devil walking next to me
Siam's gonna be the witnessTo the ultimate test of cerebral fitnessThis grips me more than would a muddy old riverOr reclining BuddhaAnd thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it
I don't see you guys ratingThe kind of mate I'm contemplatingI'd let you watch, I would invite youBut the queens we use would not excite youSo you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours
One night in Bangkok, and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples, but the pearls ain't freeYou'll find a god in every golden cloisterA little flesh, a little historyI can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humbleNot much between despair and ecstasyOne night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumbleCan't be too careful with your companyI can feel the devil walking next to me