One Night In Bangkok lyrics

Music & Lyrics : Benny Anderson - Tim Rice - Bjsrn Ulvaeus

THE AMERICAN:
Bangkok, Oriental setting
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 -- 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!

COMPANY:
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

THE AMERICAN:
One town`s very like another
When your head`s down over your pieces, brother

COMPANY:
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

THE AMERICAN:
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --

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

THE AMERICAN:
Get Thai`d! You`re talking to a tourist
Whose every move`s among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

COMPANY:
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

THE AMERICAN:
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

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 better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours --

COMPANY:
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
A 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