One Night in Bangkok

Am I the ONLY one who likes this song?
My coworkers are making fun of me!

I love that song!

'I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine!'

I like that song... great now its going to be stuck in my head!

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Posted by diamondgrlie

I like that song... great now its going to be stuck in my head!

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LOL thats why my coworkers are getting annoyed with me!

Love that song!!!

I hope I have it in my head all day!!!!

I love that song!!
It was on one day and FH changed the station on me!!! i was so annoyed

I love that song!!

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Posted by KathleenG

I actually remember when that song came out!! I think the guy who sang that actually died not long ago, I could be wrong though.

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I just looked him up. And he is still alive according to his web-site.

Found the lyrics. Because guess what? The song's stuck in my head now!!!!

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

Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

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

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 --

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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Posted by IrishTracy

I love that song!!

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Posted by KathleenG

I actually remember when that song came out!! I think the guy who sang that actually died not long ago, I could be wrong though.

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I just looked him up. And he is still alive according to his web-site.

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Really? Maybe I had misinformation. That song is in my head now too.

IT'S ON 95.5 WPLJ RIGHT NOW!!! HOW FUNNY

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Posted by Jan05Bride

IT'S ON 95.5 WPLJ RIGHT NOW!!! HOW FUNNY

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I just called FH to tell him the same thing.

awesome song!

he he, its stuck in my head now too