[00:18.16]Bangkok, Oriental setting
[00:19.65]And the city don't know that the city is getting
[00:22.46]The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
[00:24.89]Show with everything but Yul Brynner
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[00:31.93]Time flies - doesn't seem a minute
[00:33.50]Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
[00:36.36]All change - don't you know that when you
[00:39.22]Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
[00:41.52]It's Iceland... or the Philippines... or Hastings... or... or this place!
[00:47.49]One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
[00:51.88]The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
[00:56.44]You'll find a god in every golden cloister
[01:00.81]And if you're lucky then the god's a she
[01:05.06]I can feel an angel sliding up to me
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[01:12.12]One town's very like another
[01:13.91]When your head's down over your pieces, brother
[01:16.29]It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
[01:18.48]To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
[01:21.56]Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town...
[01:25.29]Tea, girls, warm, sweet, sweet
[01:27.47]Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
[01:30.46]Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
[01:32.30]Whose every move's among the purest
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[01:39.22]I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
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[01:41.45]One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
[01:45.76]Not much between despair and ecstasy
[01:50.19]One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
[01:54.70]Can't be too careful with your company
[01:58.90]I can feel the devil walking next to me
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[02:03.96]Siam's gonna be the witness
[02:05.99]To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
[02:08.27]This grips me more than would a
[02:10.11]Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
[02:12.43]And thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it
[02:15.80]I don't see you guys rating
[02:18.12]The kind of mate I'm contemplating
[02:20.86]I'd let you watch, I would invite you
[02:22.20]But the queens we use would not excite you
[02:24.63]So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours
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[02:31.55]One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
[02:36.30]The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
[02:40.67]You'll find a god in every golden cloister
[02:45.22]A little flesh, a little history
[02:49.34]I can feel an angel sliding up to me
[02:53.19]One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
[02:57.45]Not much between despair and ecstasy
[03:01.99]One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
[03:06.53]Can't be too careful with your company
[03:10.73]I can feel the devil walking next to me
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