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      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      Time flies, doesn't seem a minute   Since the Tirolean Spa had the chess boys in it   All change, don't you know that when you   Play at this level, there's no ordinary venue      It's Iceland or the Philippines   Or Hastings or, or this place      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 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      Whaddya mean?   Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town      Tea girls, warm and sweet, 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   I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine      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      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      But thank God, I'm only watching the game, controlling it      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 parlors      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   A little flesh, a little history   I can feel an angel slidin' 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