1st Verse: Dm (xx0231@1) Bangkok, Oriental setting C/D (x5555x@1) DmAnd (xx0231@1)the city don't know that the city is getting The creme de la creme of the chess world in a C/D (x5555x@1) Dm (xx0231@1) Gm7 Show with everything but Yul Brynner DmTime (xx0231@1)flies -- doesn't seem a minute C/D (x5555x@1) DmSince (xx0231@1)the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it All change -- don't you know that when you C/D (x5555x@1) DmPlay (xx0231@1)at this level there's no ordinary venue Gm7 It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or -- A7b9 or this place! 1st Chorus: Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/E (x3111x@5)Dm (xx0231@1) One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/EDm You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 And if you're lucky then the god's a she Dm (xx0231@1) Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Dm (xx0231@1) I can feel an angel sliding up to me 2nd Verse: Dm (xx0231@1) 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 Gm7 DmWhaddya (xx0231@1)mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town -- Tea, girls, warm, 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 Gm7 A7b9 I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine 2nd Chorus: Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/EDm One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 Not much between despair and ecstasy Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/E (x3111x@5)DmOne (xx0231@1)night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 DmCan't (xx0231@1)be too careful with your company Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) DmI (xx0231@1)can feel the devil walking next to me Solo: A7 for 8 bars 3rd Verse: Dm (xx0231@1) | Siam's gonna be the witness | (Dm) only played on 2nd rotation | To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness| ||:(Dm) C/D Dm |C/D Dm | | | C/DDm |C/D Dm| (xx0231@1)This grips me more than would a | | Gm7 | :|| Gm7 A7b9| Muddy old river or reclining Buddha | Synths plays this for the 3rd verse Gm7 And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it -- Dm (xx0231@1) I don't see you guys rating The kind of mate I'm contemplating I'd let you watch, I would invite you Gm7 But the queens we use would not excite you So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage A7b9 parlours 3rd Chorus: Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/E (x3111x@5)Dm (xx0231@1)One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/EDm You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 DmA (xx0231@1)little flesh, a little histo-ry Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) I can feel an angel sliding up to me Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/EDm One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 DmNot (xx0231@1)much between despair and ecstasy Dm (xx0231@1) Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1) C/E (x3111x@5)DmOne (xx0231@1)night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Gm7 DmCan't (xx0231@1)be too careful with your company Gm (355333@1) C (x32010@1) Dm (xx0231@1) DmI (xx0231@1)can feel the devil walking next to me A7b9 is from down to up: A(bass),G(7th),Bb(b9),C# and E, if anyone is wondering.