One Night In Bangkok Song Lyrics
Bangkok, Oriental CityBut the city don’t know what the city is gettingThe creme de la creme of the chess worldIn a show with everything but Yul Brenner
Time flies, doesn’t seem a minuteSince the Tirolean spa had the chess boards in itAll changed, don’t you know that when youPlay at this level there’s no ordinary venue
It’s Iceland, or the Philippines, or HastingsOr, or this place
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oysterThe bars are temples but their 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 boardNot looking at the city)
Whattaya mean?You’ve seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
(Tea, girls, warm and sweet, 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 Buddha
Thank God I’m only watching the game, controlling it
I don’t see you guys ragingThe kind of mating I’m contemplatingI’d let you watch, I would invite youBut the queens we use would not excite you
So, you better go back to your bars, your templesYour massage parlors
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oysterThe bars are temples but their 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 the 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