Chord Gitar dan Lirik Lagu One Night In Bangkok Oleh Murray Head

1st Verse:

Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the [C/D]city don’t know that the city is getting

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
[C/D]Show with e

verything but Yul Brynner

Time flies — doesn’t seem a minute
Since the T[C/D]irolean spa had the chess boys in it

All change — don’t you know that when you
[C/D]Play at this l

evel there’s no ordinary venue

It’s Iceland — or the Philippines — or Hastings — or —

or this

place!

1st Chorus:

One night in Bangkok and the world’s [C/E]your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every gol-[C/E]den cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

2nd Verse:

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

2nd Chorus:

One night in Bangkok makes a hard [C/E]man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough [C/E]guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

Solo: A7 for 8 bars

3rd Verse:

Dm |
Siam’s gonna be the witness | (Dm) only played on 2nd rotation
|
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness| ||:(Dm) C/D Dm |C/D Dm |
| | C/D Dm |C/D Dm |
This grips me more than would a | | Gm7 | :|| Gm7 A7b9|
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha | Synths plays this for the 3rd verse

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
parlour

s

3rd Chorus:

One night in Bangkok and the world’s [C/E]your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every gol-[C/E]den cloister
A little flesh, a little histo-ry
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes a hard [C/E]man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough [C/E]guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

A7b9 is from down to up: A(bass),G(7th),Bb(b9),C# and E, if anyone is wondering.