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/E (x3111x@5)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm
  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/E (x3111x@5)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm
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/D (x5555x@1)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm |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/E (x3111x@5)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm
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/E (x3111x@5)name="chord_xx0231@1">Dm
 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.