[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

Like 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 seen 'em all!

[CHORUS]
Tea, girls, warm, sweet (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 of 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 parlours...

[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