Bangkok - One Night In Bangkok Lyrics

Bangkok - One Night In Bangkok lyrics

Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, and Bjorn Ulvaeus
THE AMERICAN:
 Bangkok,
Oriental setting
 And the city don't know that the city is getting
 The
creme de la creme 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!
 COMPANY:
 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
 THE
AMERICAN:
 One town's very like another
 When your head's down over your
pieces, brother
 COMPANY:
 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
 THE
AMERICAN:
 Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted,
 stinking town
--
 COMPANY:
 Tea, girls, warm, sweet
 Some are set up in the Somerset
Maugham suite
 THE AMERICAN:
 Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the purest
 I get my kicks above the waistline,
sunshine
 COMPANY:
 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
 THE AMERICAN:
 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 better go back to your bars, your
temples,
 your massage parlours --
 COMPANY:
 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