One Night In Bangkok Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]Bangkok, Oriental setting 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
[Dm]Time[Am] 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
[Dm]It's Iceland or the Philippines
or Hastings or, or this [G#dim7]place

[Chorus 1]
[Am]One night in Bangk[F]ok
and the [C]world's your [Am]oyster
The bars are [Dm]temples but the pearls ain't free
[Am]You'll find a god [F]in every golde[C]n cloi[Am]ster
And if you're [Dm]lucky then the god's a she

[Verse 2]
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
[Am]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
[Dm]Whaddya mean?
Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
[Am]Tea, girls, warm, 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 [Dm]purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
[G#dim7]

[Chorus 2]
[Am]One night in Bangk[F]ok makes
a [C]hard man [Am]humble
Not much be[Dm]tween despair and ecstasy
[Am]One night in Bangk[F]ok
and the [C]tough guys [Am]tumble
Can't be too [Dm]careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to [Am]me

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[Verse 3]
[Am]Siam's gonna be the the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
[Dm]And thank God I'm only watching
the game, controlling it
[Am]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 [Dm]you
So you better go back to your bars,
your temples
Your massage [G#dim7]parlours

[Chorus 3]
[Am]One night in Bangk[F]ok
and the [C]world's your [Am]oyster
The bars are [Dm]temples but the pearls ain't free
[Am]You'll find a god [F]in every golde[C]n cloi[Am]ster
A little [Dm]flesh, a little history

[Chorus 4]
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
[Am]One night in Bangk[F]ok makes
a [C]hard man [Am]humble
Not much be[Dm]tween despair and ecstasy
[Am]One night in Bangk[F]ok
and the [C]tough guys [Am]tumble
Can't be too [Dm]careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to [Am]me