One Night In BangkokMurray HeadMusic & Lyrics : Benny Anderson - Tim Rice - Bjsrn UlvaeusTHE AMERICAN:Bangkok, Oriental settingAnd the city don't know that the city is gettingThe creme de la creme of the chess world in aShow with everything but Yul BrynnerTime flies -- doesn't seem a minuteSince the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in itAll change -- don't you know that when youPlay at this level there's no ordinary venueIt's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --or this place!COMPANY:One night in Bangkok and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples but the 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 meTHE AMERICAN:One town's very like anotherWhen your head's down over your pieces, brotherCOMPANY:It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pityTo be looking at the board, not looking at the cityTHE AMERICAN:Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --COMPANY:Tea, girls, warm, sweetSome are set up in the Somerset Maugham suiteTHE AMERICAN:Get Thai'd! You're talking to a touristWhose every move's among the purestI get my kicks above the waistline, sunshineCOMPANY: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 meTHE AMERICAN:Siam's gonna be the witnessTo the ultimate test of cerebral fitnessThis grips me more than would aMuddy old river or reclining BuddhaAnd thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --I don't see you guys ratingThe kind of mate I'm contemplatingI'd let you watch, I would invite youBut the queens we use would not excite youSo you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massageparlours --COMPANY:One night in Bangkok and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples but the pearls ain't freeYou'll find a god in every golden cloisterA little flesh, a little historyI can feel an angel sliding up to meOne night in Bangkok makes a hard man humbleNot much between despair and e
