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One Night In Bangkok
Various Artists
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Bangkok, Oriental city
And the city don't know what the city has got
The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a minute
Since a Tyrolean star had chess bars in it
All change, but don't you know that when you
Play at this level, there's no ordinary menu?
Island or Philippines
Or Hastings or this place
One night in Bangkok and the world's your hustler
The bars are temples but the pulse ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden oyster
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One town is 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
Wait a minute, you see one crowded, polluted, stinking town
With tea girls, woman's breasts
Some are set up in the Somerset en suite
Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, such as
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much to twin despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys stumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
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
Thank God I'm only watching the game
Controlling it, I don't see you guys
Raising the kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queen's wheels would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars
Your temples, your massage parlors
One night in Bangkok and the world's your hustler
The bars are temples but the pulse ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden oyster
A little fish, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much to twin despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys stumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
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