To: NormsRevenge
[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
To: the invisib1e hand
That was one weird song that shot to the top of the charts. I remember Rick Dees wondering if the “head down over your pieces” bit was about homosexuals. Evidently he didn’t really listen to the lyrics.
19 posted on
04/13/2009 1:43:56 PM PDT by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: the invisib1e hand
Did Benny and Bjorn write the lyrics to that ditty or just the music?
20 posted on
04/13/2009 1:44:04 PM PDT by
Frantzie
(Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
To: the invisib1e hand
Great song, good one to muse at, and describes Bang Na well.
We have a beautiful apartment in Jomtien, not been in 2 years!
Shinawatra is definitely no angel, and has made $Billions from the selloff of the GSM network there.
Heard him on TV today saying how much poorer people have suffered since his Government had been ousted, made me fall over laughing, yeah, pull the other one Thaksin, it's got brass knobs on.
To: the invisib1e hand
Sorry, but that brought
this to mind.
Cheers!
33 posted on
04/13/2009 6:59:28 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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