One Night In Bangkok Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][F][Am][D]
[Am][F][Am][D][Dm]

[Verse 1]
[Am]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
[Dm]Yul [Am]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 [Dm]venue
It's Iceland - - or the Philippines - - or
Hastings - - or - - or [Am]this place!
One night [F]in Bangkok and the

[Verse 2]
[C]
world's [G]your [Am]oyster
The bars [Dm]are temples but
the [Am]pearls ain't [Dm]free
[Am]You'll find a go[F]d in every
[C]golden [G]clo[Am]ister
And if [Dm]you're lucky then
the [F]god's a [Dm]she
I can feel an angel sliding up [Am]to me

[Verse 3]
One [Am]town's very like another
[G]When [F]your head's down over your [Am]pieces,
brother

[Verse 4]
It's [Am]a drag, it's a bore,
it's really such a pity
To be looking at the board,
not looking at the [Dm]city

[Verse 5]
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one [Dm]crowded,
polluted, stinking [Am]town - -
Tea, girls, warm and sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset
Maugham suite

[Verse 6]
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist [Am]Whose
every move's among the purest
[Dm]I get my kicks above the waistline,
sunshine
[Am]

[Verse 7]
One night [F]in Bangkok makes
a [C]hard [G]man [Am]humble
Not much [Dm]between despair and ec[F]stasy
[Dm]One [Am]night in Bangko[F]k and
the [C]tough [G]guys [Am]tumble
Can't be [Dm]too careful with your [F]company
[Dm]I can feel the devil walking next to me[Am][F]

[Interlude 1]
[D][Am]
[F][Dm][D][Dm][Am]

[Verse 8]
Siam's gonna be the witness [Am]To the
ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining [Dm]Buddha
And thank God I'm only watching the
game - - controlling [Am]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 [Dm]excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples,
your massage par[G]lours [Am]- -
One night [F]in Bangkok and the

[Verse 9]
[C]
world's [Am]your oyster
The bars [Dm]are temples but the
pearls ain't [F]free[Dm]
[Am]You'll find a go[F]d in every golde[C]n cloi[G]ster[Am]
A little [Dm]flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding [Am]up to me
One night [F]in Bangkok makes
a [C]hard [G]man [Am]humble
Not much [Dm]between despair and ecstasy
[Am]One night in B[F]angkok and the
[C]tough [G]guys [Am]tumble
Can't be [Dm]too careful with your [Am]com p[Dm]any
I can feel the devil walking next to [Am]me