One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head

Bangkok
Oriental Setting
But the city don't know
What the city is getting

The (1)__________ de la creme
Of the chess world
In a show (2)________ everything
But Yul Brynner

Time flies
Doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa
Had the chess (3)________ in it

All changed
Don't you know that when you
Play at (4)________ level
There's no (5)________________ venue

It's Iceland
Or the Philippines
Or Hastings
Or, or (6)________ place

One night in Bangkok
And the world's your oyster
The (7)________ are temples
But their 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 (8)________ head's down
Over your pieces, brother

It's a drag
It's a bore
It's (9)____________ such a pity
To be looking at the board
Not (10)______________ at the city

What do you mean?!
You've seen one crowded
Polluted, stinking town

Tea girls, (11)________ and sweet
(Sweet)
Some are set up in
The Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai'ed
You're (12)______________ to a tourist
Whose (13)__________ move's
Among the purest

I get my kicks
Above the waistline
Sunshine!

One night in Bangkok makes
The hard man humble
Not much between
despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok
And the (14)__________ (15)________ tumble
Can't be too careful
With your company
I can feel the devil
Walking (16)________ 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 (17)________ (18)________________ the game
Controlling it

I don't see
You (19)________ 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 (20)____________ go back
To your bars, your temples
Your (21)______________ parlors

One night in Bangkok
And the world's your oyster
The (22)________ are temples
But (23)__________ pearls ain't free

You'll find a god
In every golden cloister
A (24)____________ flesh
A little history
I can feel an angel
Sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes
The hard man humble
Not much between
Despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok
And the tough (25)________ tumble
Can't be too careful
With your company
I can feel the devil
Walking next to me

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