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Bangkok, oriental settingAnd the city don't know what the city is gettingThe créme de la créme of the chess world in aShow with everything but Yul BrynnerTime flies doesn't seem a minuteSince the Tyrolean spa has the chess boys in itAll change don't you know that when youPlay at this level there's no ordinary venue (ordinary venue)It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings or- or this placeOne night in Bangkok and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples but the pearls ain't freeYou'll find a god in every golden cloisterAnd if you're lucky then the god's a sheI can feel an angel sliding up to meOne town is very like anotherWhen you head's down over your pieces, brotherIt's a drag, it's a boreIt's really such a pity To be looking at the bar not looking at the cityWhaddaya mean? You see one crowded, polluted, stinking townLetras de cancionesTea girls warm and sweet (warm sweet)Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suiteGet Thai'd you're talking to a touristWhose every move's among the purestI get my kicks above the waistline sunshine (sun, sun, sunshine)One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humbleNot much between despair and ecstasyOne night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumbleCan't bee to careful with your companyI can feel the devil walking next to meSiam's gotta be the witnessTo the ultimate test of cerebral fitnessThis grips me more than would aMuddy old river or reclining BuddhaAnd thank god I'm only watching the gameControlling itI don't see you guys ratingThe kind of mate I'm contemplatingI'd let you watch I would invite youBut the queens wee use would not excite you (would not, would not)So you'd better go back to your barsyour temples, your massage parlours (go back, go back, go back, yeah, yeah)One night in Bangkok and the world's your oysterThe bars are temples but the pearls ain't freeYou'll find a god in every golden cloisterA little flesh, a little historyI can feel an angel sliding up to meOne night in Bangkok makes a hard man humbleNot much between despair and ecstasyOne night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumbleCan't bee to careful with your companyI can feel a devil walking next to me From Letras Mania