C21 – One Night In Bangkok

Requested By Alex

Scale: A Minor

Time Signature: 4/4

Tempo: 106

Suggested Strumming: DU,DU,DU,DU

c h o r d z o n e . o r g

[INTRO]

[VERSE]

Am

Bangkok, Oriental setting

Am

And the city don't know that the city is getting

Am

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a

Am                                 Dm

Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Am

Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute

Am

Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it

Am

All change -- don't you know that when you

Am                                      Dm

Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

Dm

It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or -- or this place!

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[CHORUS]

Am           F                C             Am

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

Am            Dm               G          Am

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

Am             F             C       Am

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

Am              Dm           G         Am

And if you're lucky then the god's a she

Am              Dm          G      Am

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

[VERSE]

Am

One town's very like another

Am

When your head's down over your pieces, brother

Am

It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity

Am

To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

Dm

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

Am

Tea, girls, warm and sweet

Am

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Am

Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist

Am                               Dm

Whose every move's among the purest

Dm                                         Am

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

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[CHORUS]

Am               F             C        Am

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Am           Dm              G     Am

Not much between despair and ecstasy

Am             F               C          Am

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Am              Dm               G   Am

Can't be too careful with your company

Am             Dm             G      Am

I can feel the devil walking next to me
[VERSE]

Am

Siam's gonna be the witness

Am

To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

Am

This grips me more than would a

Am

Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

Dm

And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --

Dm

I don't see you guys rating

Am

The kind of mate I'm contemplating

Am

I'd let you watch, I would invite you

Am

But the queens we use would not excite you

Am                              Dm

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours --
[CHORUS]

Bm       G               D          Bm

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

Bm              Em              A            Bm

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

Bm           G              D      Bm

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

Bm          Em              A   Bm

A little flesh, a little history

Bm            Em           A     Bm

I can feel an angel sliding up to me

Bm              G              D         Bm

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

Bm          Em                 A  Bm

Not much between despair and ecstasy

Bm            G                 D         Bm

One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

Bm             Em              A     Bm

Can't be too careful with your company

Bm

I can feel the devil walking next to me