Bangkok, Oriental setting

[ET Awful]

But 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, 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 mating 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

[northzax]

1. great. now I'll have murray head in my head

thanks.

[jackelope72]

2. No man, no madness

Though their sad power may prevail
Can possess, conquer my country's heart
They rise to fail

She is eternal
Long before nations' lines were drawn
When no flags flew, where no armies stood
My land was born

And you ask me why I love her
Through wars, death and despair
She is the constant, we who don't care
And you wonder will I leave her, but how?
I cross over borders, but I'm still there now

How can I leave her?
Where would I start?
Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart!
My land's only borders lie around my heart!

[Worst Username Ever]

3. Adapted from the broadway show "Chess."

Very nice. :hi:

[soothsayer]

4. Not a horrible play! But that's clearly the standout tune

[ET Awful]

5. Yup, not many people remember anything else from Chess other

than that song and a good chunk of people that know that song have no clue it's from a play :).