One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head

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

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

Time flies
Doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa
Had the chess boys in it

All changed
Don't you (3)________ that (4)________ you
Play at (5)________ level
There's no ordinary venue

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

One night in Bangkok
And the world's (7)________ oyster
The bars are temples
But their pearls ain't free

You'll find a god
In (8)__________ 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 (9)________ another
When your head's down
Over your pieces, brother

It's a drag
It's a bore
It's (10)____________ such a pity
To be looking at the board
Not looking 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 talking to a tourist
Whose every 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 tough (12)________ 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 (13)__________ 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 (14)________ of mate
I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch
I would (15)____________ you
But the queens we use
Would not excite you

So you better go back
To your bars, (16)________ temples
Your massage parlors

One night in Bangkok
And the world's (17)________ oyster
The bars are temples
But their pearls ain't free

You'll find a god
In every (18)____________ cloister
A little flesh
A little history
I can feel an angel
Sliding up to me

One night in (19)______________ makes
The (20)________ man humble
Not (21)________ between
Despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok
And the (22)__________ guys tumble
Can't be too careful
With your company
I can (23)________ the devil
Walking (24)________ to me

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