Lyrics:

Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city dont know that the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies -- doesnt seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change -- dont you know that when you
Play at this level theres no ordinary venue
Its Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or -- or
this place!

Chorus:
One night in Bangkok and the worlds your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls aint free
Youll find a god in every golden cloister
And if youre lucky then the gods a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One towns very like another
When your heads down over your pieces, brother

Its a drag, its a bore, its really such a pity
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --

Tea, girls, warm and sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thaid! Youre talking to a tourist
Whose every moves 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
Cant be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

Siams gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
And thank God Im only watching the game -- controlling it --
I dont see you guys rating
The kind of mate Im contemplating
Id 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
parlours --

Chorus:
One night in Bangkok and the worlds your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls aint free
Youll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
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
Cant be too careful with your company