Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok (Peter’s Pop Show) (Remastered)
11/09/1985
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LYRICS “One Night In Bangkok“
The American
Bangkok, Oriental Setting
But the city don’t know what the city is getting
The crème de la crème of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies – doesn’t seem a minute
Since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boards in it
All changed, 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 their 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 slidin’ up to me
The American
One town’s very like another
When your head’s down over your pieces, br