Verse 1:
C           Dm
   Bangkok, Oriental setting
        C                        Dm
And the city don't know that the city is getting
    C                        Dm
The crème de la crème of the chess world in a
C                        Dm          Gm7
Show with everything but Yul Brynner


Dm7
Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
          C            Dm
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
C                   Dm
All change -- don't you know that when you
C                             Dm
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
Gm7
    It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --
   Dbdim
or this place!

Chorus 1:
Dm             Bb              F       C    Dm
  One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
             Gm              C                Gm7
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
Dm              Bb           F   C   Dm
  You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
              Gm             C       Gm7
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
Dm              Gm            C     Dm
  I can feel an angel sliding up to me

Verse 2:
Dm
 One town's very like another

When your head's down over your pieces, brother
Dm
(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)
Gm7
Whaddya mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --
Dm
Tea, girls, warm, sweet

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Dm
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the purest
Gm7                                               Gm7 Dbdim
     I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

Chorus 2:

Dm             Bb              F    C   Dm
  One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
            Gm               C       Gm7
Not much between despair and ecstasy
Dm             Bb              F     C    Dm
  One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
             Gm                C       Gm7   Dm
Can't be too careful with your company
               Gm            C       Dm
I can feel the devil walking next to me             

Solo: A7

Verse 3:
C      Dm                               
Siam's gonna be the witness            
       C                Dm         
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness  
C                 Dm                       
    This grips me more than would a       
C                    Dm                   
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
Gm7
   And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --
Dm7
   I don't see you guys rating
    C            Dm
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
    C                Dm
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
        C                   Dm             Gm7
But the queens we use would not excite you
                                                          Gm7
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
         Dbdim
parlours

Chorus 3:
Dm             Bb              F       C    Dm
  One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
             Gm              C                Gm7
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
Dm              Bb           F   C   Dm
  You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
         Gm              C     Gm7   Dm
a little flesh, a little histo-ry
              Gm            C
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

Chorus 4:
Dm             Bb              F    C   Dm
  One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
            Gm               C       Gm7
Not much between despair and ecstasy
Dm             Bb              F     C    Dm
  One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
             Gm                C       Gm7   Dm
Can't be too careful with your company
               Gm            C       Dm  Dm9
I can feel the devil walking next to me
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