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 

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