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