Bangkok, Oriental setting and the city don't know what the city is getting The creme de la creme of the chess world in a show with everything But you've been a, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah Time flies, doesn't seem a minute since the time Laying spars to chess boys in it All changed, don't you know? When you play at this level, there's no ordinary thing you can do It's Iceland, or the Philippines, Hastings, 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 cluster And if you're lucky, then the god's a sheep I can feel an angel sliding up to me One town is 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 bar, not looking at the city What do you mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town Tea girls, warm and sweet Somerset up in the Somerset Malt Suite Get tied, you're talking to a tourist Whose every move's among the purest Na-na, na-na, na-na I get my kicks up out the waist, I'm sunshine One night in Bangkok makes a hot 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 Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness This group's more than would a muddy old river or reclining Buddha But thank god I won't be watching the game, controlling it I don't see you guys reading the kind of meat I'm contemplating And let me watch, I would invite you But the greens we use would not excite you So you'd better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours One night, one night One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars and temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden oyster A little flesh, a little history I can feel an angel sliding up to me One night in Bangkok makes a hot 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