ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK

 

CHORUS.

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

 

FREDDIE.

Bangkok!  Oriental setting

And the city don't know what the city is getting

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a

Show with everything but Yul Brynner

 

Bangkok, just another stop in

The chess world circus--Masters drop in

Play, checkmate, check out and then you

Move on to another venue.

 

It's Iceland - or the Philippines - or Hastings - or - or this place!

 

CHORUS.

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

 

FREDDIE.

One town's very like another

When your head's down over your pieces, brother

 

CHORUS.

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

 

FREDDIE.

Whaddya mean?  You've seen one crowded, polluted,

   stinking town, you've -

 

CHORUS.

Tea, girls, warm, sweet

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Suite

 

FREDDIE.

Get Thai'd!  You're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the purest

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

 

CHORUS.

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

 

FREDDIE.

Siam's gonna be the witness

To the ultimate test in cerebral fitness

This grips me more than would a

Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

 

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 parlors . . .

 

FREDDIE + CHORUS.

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 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