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One Night In Bangkok
Aaron Tveit, och, CHESS 2025 Broadway Company
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Bangkok, such a pretty setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The crรจme de la crรจme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
It's a Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change, don't you know that when you
Play at this level, it'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)
What do you mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
(Tea girls, warm and sweet, warm, sweet)
(Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite)
Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move 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
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Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
A muddy old river or reclining Buddha
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
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 fresh, 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
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