One Night in Bangkok - Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (Lyrics and Chords)

ARTIST: Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
TITLE: One Night in Bangkok
Lyrics and Chords


[Chess]

[ C#dim7 =  ]

Bangkok! Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The crème de la crème 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 Hastings - or, or this place!

/ C Dm / / / / Gm7 - - - / Dm7 - / C Dm / / / Gm7 - - - - C#dim7 /

   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

   / Dm Bb FC Dm - / Gm - - / 1st / Gm - - / /

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
Whaddaya mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
Tea, girls, warm and sweet
                  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

   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

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
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'd 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...
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