Bangkok, Oriental city

And the city don't know that the city is getting

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a

Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies, doesnt seem a minute

Since the tiralinan spa had the chess bars in it

All change, dont you know we're new

plan this settlement with no ordinary menu

Like 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? Ya seen one crowded,

polluted, stinking town,ya seen 'em all.

Tea, girls, warm and sweet

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist

Whose every move'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 [bad word] 

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 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 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 [bad word] 

I can feel the devil walking next to me