Bangkok - Oriental setting

Bangkok - Oriental setting
And the city don`t know
What the city is getting.
The creme de la creme of
The chess world in a show
With everything' but Yul Brynner.

Times 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!

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.

Whaddya mean? You`ve seen one crowded polluted stinking town...

Tea, girls, warm, sweet, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite.

Get Thai`d! You`re talking to a tourist
Whose every moves`s 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.

Siam`s gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.
This grips me more than would
Muddy old river, or reclining Buddah.

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

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.
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.