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Bangkok, Oriental city
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 tiralinan spa had the chess bars in it
All change, don't you know that when you
play at this level there's no ordinary venue

Like Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or
Hastings -- or -- 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 cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

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.

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded,
polluted, stinking town,ya seen 'em all.

Tea, girls, warm and 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.

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...

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

Last Update: June, 10th 2013

Chess in Concert [LIVE] Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Prologue
  3. The Story Of Chess
  4. Merano/What A Scene! What A Joy!
  5. Commie Newspapers
  6. Press Conference
  7. Molokov And Anatoly
  8. Where I Want To Be
  9. Difficult And Dangerous Times
  10. The Arbiter
  11. Hymn To Chess
  12. The Merchandisers
  13. Global TV Fanfare
  14. Chess Game 1
  15. The Arbiter (Reprise)
  16. Quartet (A Model Of Decorum And Tranquility)
  17. Florence And Molokov
  18. 1956 - Budapest Is Rising
  19. Nobody's Side
  20. Mountain Duet
  21. Chess Game 2
  22. Florence Quits
  23. Pity The Child 1
  24. Embassy Lament
  25. Heaven Help My Heart
  26. Anatoly And The Press
  27. Anthem
  28. Act 2
  29. Golden Bangkok
  30. One Night In Bangkok
  31. One More Opponent
  32. You And I
  33. The Soviet Machine
  34. The Interview
  35. Someone Else's Story
  36. The Deal (No Deal)
  37. Pity The Child 2
  38. I Know Him So Well
  39. Talking Chess
  40. Endgame 1
  41. Endgame 2
  42. Endgame 3/Chess Game 3
  43. You And I (Reprise)
  44. Walter And Florence
  45. Anthem (Reprise)

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