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)________ with everything
But Yul Brynner

Time flies
Doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa
Had the (2)__________ boys in it

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

It's Iceland
Or the Philippines
Or Hastings
Or, or this place

One night in Bangkok
And the world's (6)________ oyster
The bars are temples
But (7)__________ pearls ain't free

You'll (8)________ a god
In every (9)____________ 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 (10)________ pieces, brother

It's a drag
It's a bore
It's really such a pity
To be (11)______________ at the board
Not looking at the city

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

Tea girls, warm 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 (12)______________ makes
The hard man humble
Not much between
despair and ecstasy

One night in Bangkok
And the (13)__________ guys tumble
Can't be too careful
With your company
I can (14)________ the devil
Walking (15)________ to me

Siam's (16)__________ be
The witness
To the ultimate test
Of cerebral fitness

This grips me more than
Would a (17)__________ old river
Or reclining Buddha

Thank God
I'm (18)________ (19)________________ the game
Controlling it

I don't see
You (20)________ rating
The (21)________ of mate
I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch
I would invite you
But the (22)____________ we use
Would not excite you

So you better go back
To your bars, (23)________ temples
Your massage parlors

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

You'll find a god
In every golden cloister
A (24)____________ flesh
A little history
I can (25)________ 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 guys tumble
Can't be too careful
With your company
I can (26)________ the devil
Walking next to me

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