Chess - One Night in Bangkok Lyrics |
1988 Broadway Chess the Musical - One Night in Bangkok Lyrics
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
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SYNOPSIS The Story of Chess Merano Commie Newspapers Press Conference Anatoly & Molokov Where I Want to Be Diplomats The Arbiter Hymn to Chess Merchandisers The Arbiter (Reprise) Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) Florence and Molokov 1956 – Budapest is Rising Nobody's Side Mountain Duet Florence Quits Pity the Child Embassy Lament Heaven Help My Heart Anatoly and the Press Anthem One Night in Bangkok One More Opponent You and I The Soviet Machine The Interview Someone Else's Story The Deal I Know Him So Well Talking Chess Endgame You and I (Reprise) Anthem (Reprise)
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