One Night In Bangkok
Murray Head
Letra

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 this place!







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

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

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 purest

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine







3rd Verse:


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

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

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