Chess London movie - One Night in Bangkok lyrics
rate me<br>
[THE AMERICAN]<br>
Bangkok, Oriental setting<br>
And the city don't know that the city is getting<br>
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a<br>
Show with everything but Yul Brynner<br>
<br>
Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute<br>
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it<br>
All change -- don't you know that when you<br>
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue<br>
<br>
It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --<br>
or this place!<br>
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[COMPANY]<br>
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster<br>
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free<br>
You'll find a god in every golden cloister<br>
And if you're lucky then the god's a she<br>
I can feel an angel sliding up to me<br>
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[THE AMERICAN]<br>
One town's very like another<br>
When your head's down over your pieces, brother<br>
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[COMPANY]<br>
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity<br>
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city<br>
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[THE AMERICAN]<br>
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --<br>
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[COMPANY]<br>
Tea, girls, warm, sweet<br>
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite<br>
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[THE AMERICAN]<br>
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist<br>
Whose every move's among the purest<br>
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine<br>
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[COMPANY]<br>
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble<br>
Not much between despair and ecstasy<br>
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble<br>
Can't be too careful with your company<br>
I can feel the devil walking next to me<br>
<br>
[THE AMERICAN]<br>
Siam's gonna be the witness<br>
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness<br>
This grips me more than would a<br>
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha<br>
<br>
And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --<br>
<br>
I don't see you guys rating<br>
The kind of mate I'm contemplating<br>
I'd let you watch, I would invite you<br>
But the queens we use would not excite you<br>
<br>
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage<br>
parlours --<br>
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[COMPANY]<br>
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster<br>
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free<br>
You'll find a god in every golden cloister<br>
A little flesh, a little history<br>
I can feel an angel sliding up to me<br>
<br>
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble<br>
Not much between despair and ecstasy<br>
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble<br>
Can't be too careful with your company<br>
I can feel the devil walking next to me<br>
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