Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don"t 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 -- 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, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Get Thai
