THE AMERICAN:
                              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!

                              COMPANY:
                              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

                              THE AMERICAN:
                              One town's very like another
                              When your head's down over your pieces, brother

                              COMPANY:
                              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

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

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

                              THE AMERICAN:
                              Get Thai'd!  You're talking to a tourist
                              Whose every move's among the purest
                              I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

                              COMPANY:
                              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

                              THE AMERICAN:
                              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

                              And 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
                              parlours --

                              COMPANY:
                              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 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