(dramatic music) ♪ Bangkok, Oriental setting ♪ ♪ And the city don't know
that the city is gettin' ♪ ♪ The creme de la creme
of the chess world ♪ ♪ In a show with everything
but Yul Brynner ♪ (funky synthesizer music) ♪ 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 Hastings or ♪ ♪ Or this place ♪ ♪ One night in Bangkok and
the world's your oyster ♪ ♪ The bars are temples but
the pearls ain't free ♪ ♪ You'll find a god in
every golden cloister ♪ ♪ And if you're lucky
then the god's a she ♪ ♪ I can feel an angel sliding up to me ♪ ♪ 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 lookin' at the board,
not lookin' at the city ♪ ♪ What do ya mean ♪ ♪ You've seen one crowded,
polluted, stinking town ♪ ♪ Tea, girls, warm and 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 ♪ ♪ One night in Bangkok
makes a hard man humble ♪ ♪ Not much between despair and ecstasy ♪ ♪ One night in Bangkok and
the tough guys tumble ♪ ♪ Can't be too careful with your company ♪ ♪ I can feel the devil
walking next to me ♪ (mysterious music) ♪ 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, controlling it ♪ (funky synthesizer music) ♪ 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 parlors ♪ ♪ One night in Bangkok and
the world's your oyster ♪ ♪ The bars are temples but
the pearls ain't free ♪ ♪ You'll find a god in
every golden cloister ♪ ♪ A little flesh, a little history ♪ ♪ I can feel an angel sliding up to me ♪ ♪ One night in Bangkok
makes a hard man humble ♪ ♪ Not much between despair and ecstasy ♪ ♪ One night in Bangkok and
the tough guys tumble ♪ ♪ Can't be too careful with your company ♪ ♪ I can feel the devil
walking next to me ♪
