1st Verse:
D5
  Bangkok, Oriental setting
        C5        D5
And the city don't know that the city is getting

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
C5        D5                          G5
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

D5
Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
           C5          D5
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it

All change -- don't you know that when you
C5           D5
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

G5                                                       
    It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --
        A7b9
or this place!


1st Chorus:

D5             Bb5              F5       C5  D5
  One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
             G5              C5                G5
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
D5              Bb5           F5   C5 D5
  You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
              G5             C5       G5 
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
D5              G5            C5     D5
  I can feel an angel sliding up to me


2nd Verse:

D5  
 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
G5                                                   D5
Whaddya 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
G5                                                     A7b9
       I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine


2nd Chorus:

D5           Bb5              F5    C5 D5
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
            G5               C5       G5
Not much between despair and ecstasy
D5           Bb5              F5     C5  D5
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
             G5                C5       G5   D5
Can't be too careful with your company
               G5            C5       D5
I can feel the devil walking next to me



Solo: A7 for 8 bars


3rd Verse:

D5                                      
Siam's gonna be the witness              ( D5 ) only played on 2nd rotation 
                                         |     
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness :( D5 ) C5 D5 C5 D5 
                                            C5 D5 C5 D5 
This grips me more than would a             G5  : G5 A7b9
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha      |  Synths plays this for the 3rd verse
G5
   And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --
D5
  I don't see you guys rating

The kind of mate I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch, I would invite you
                                           G5
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:

D5            Bb5              F5       C5  D5
 One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
             G5              C5                 G5
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
D5            Bb5           F5   C5 D5
You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
         G5              C5     G5   D5
A little flesh, a little histo-ry
              G5            C5     
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

D5            Bb5              F5    C5 D5
 One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
            G5               C5    G5   D5
Not much between despair and ecstasy
D5           Bb5              F5     C5  D5
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
             G5                C5    G5  D5
Can't be too careful with your company
               G5            C5       D5      D5
I 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.