One Night In Bangkok chords by Murray Head

Chords with lyrics

1st Verse:
DmDm
 Bangkok, Oriental setting
    C/DC/D    DmDm
And the city don't know that the city is getting

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
C/DC/D    DmDm             Gm7Gm7
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

DmDm
Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
      C/DC/D     DmDm
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it

All change -- don't you know that when you
C/DC/D      DmDm
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

Gm7Gm7
  It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --
    A7b9A7b9
or this place!

1st Chorus:

DmDm       Bb majorBb       FF    C/EC/E DmDm
 One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
       G minorGm       C majorC        Gm7Gm7
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
DmDm       Bb majorBb      FF  C/EC/E DmDm
 You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
       G minorGm       C majorC    Gm7Gm7
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
DmDm       G minorGm      C majorC   DmDm
 I can feel an angel sliding up to me


2nd Verse:

DmDm
 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
Gm7Gm7                          DmDm
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
Gm7Gm7                           A7b9A7b9
    I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

2nd Chorus:

DmDm      Bb majorBb       FF  C/EC/E DmDm
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
      G minorGm        C majorC    Gm7Gm7
Not much between despair and ecstasy
DmDm      Bb majorBb       FF   C/EC/E DmDm
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
       G minorGm        C majorC    Gm7Gm7  DmDm
Can't be too careful with your company
        G minorGm      C majorC    DmDm
I can feel the devil walking next to me


Solo: A7A7 for 8 bars


3rd Verse:

DmDm                   |
Siam's gonna be the witness       | (DmDm) only played on 2nd rotation
                    |
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness| ||:(DmDm) C/DC/D DmDm |C/DC/D DmDm |
                    |  | C/DC/D DmDm |C/DC/D DmDm |
This grips me more than would a     |  | Gm7Gm7 | :|| Gm7Gm7 A7b9A7b9|
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha   | Synths plays this for the 3rd verse
Gm7Gm7
  And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --
DmDm
 I don't see you guys rating

The kind of mate I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch, I would invite you
                      Gm7Gm7
But the queens we use would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
    A7b9A7b9
parlours


3rd Chorus:

DmDm      Bb majorBb       FF    C/EC/E DmDm
 One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
       G minorGm       C majorC         Gm7Gm7
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
DmDm      Bb majorBb      FF  C/EC/E DmDm
You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
     G minorGm       C majorC   Gm7Gm7  DmDm
A augmentedA little flesh, a little histo-ry
       G minorGm      C majorC
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

DmDm      Bb majorBb       FF  C/EC/E DmDm
 One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
      G minorGm        C majorC  Gm7Gm7  DmDm
Not much between despair and ecstasy
DmDm      Bb majorBb       FF   C/EC/E DmDm
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
       G minorGm        C majorC  Gm7Gm7 DmDm
Can't be too careful with your company
        G minorGm      C majorC    DmDm   DmDm
I can feel the devil walking next to me