One Night in Bangkok

Bangkok! Oriental setting and the city don't know what the city is getting,

the crème de la crème grips of the chess world in a show mud with everything er but re Yul ing Brynner.

(Gm7)And thank God I'm only watching the game controlling it.

(Dm7)Time flies see doesn't seem a minute since the (Dm)Tirolean spa had the chess con boys tem in it.

I'd let All watch, change I don't you know that when you but the play at this level there's no ordinary venue.

you. (Gm7)It's Ice you'd land ter go back to or your the Phillippines temples,

or Hastings your mas (C#dim)or, parlours.

or this place!

(Dm)One night in (Bb)Bangkok and the (F)world's (C)your (Dm)oyster,

the bars are (Gm)temples but the pearls ain't free.

(Dm)You'll find a (Bb)god in every (F)(C)golden (Dm)cloister

and if you're (Gm)lucky then the god's a she.

I can feel an angel sliding up to me.

(Dm)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.

(Fm7)Whaddya mean?

You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town.

(Dm7)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.

(Fm7)I get my kicks above the waistline,

sunshine!

(Dm)One night in (Bb)Bangkok makes a (F)hard (C)man (Dm)humble,

not much (Gm)between despair and ecstasy.

(Dm)One night in (Bb)Bangkok and the (F)tough (C)guys (Dm)tumble,

can't be too (Gm)careful with your company.

I can feel the devil walking next to me.

(Dm)cloister, a little (Gm)flesh, a little history.

I can feel an angel sliding up to me.

(Dm)One night in (Bb)Bangkok makes a (F)hard (C)man (Dm)humble,

not much (Gm)between despair and ecstasy.

(Dm)One night in (Bb)Bangkok and the (F)tough (C)guys (Dm)tumble,

can't be too (Gm)careful with your company.

I can feel the devil walking next to (Dm)me.