Music & Lyrics : Benny Anderson - Tim Rice - Bjsrn Ulvaeus
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THE AMERICAN:
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Bangkok, Oriental setting
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And the city don't know that the city is getting
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The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
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Show with everything but Yul Brynner
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Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
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Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
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All change -- don't you know that when you
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Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
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It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --
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or this place!
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COMPANY:
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One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
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The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
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You'll find a god in every golden cloister
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And if you're lucky then the god's a she
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I can feel an angel sliding up to me
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THE AMERICAN:
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One town's very like another
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When your head's down over your pieces, brother
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COMPANY:
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It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
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To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
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THE AMERICAN:
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Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --
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COMPANY:
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Tea, girls, warm, sweet
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Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
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THE AMERICAN:
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Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist
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Whose every move's among the purest
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I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
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COMPANY:
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One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
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Not much between despair and ecstasy
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One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
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Can't be too careful with your company
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I can feel the devil walking next to me
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THE AMERICAN:
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Siam's gonna be the witness
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To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
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This grips me more than would a
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Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
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And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --
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I don't see you guys rating
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The kind of mate I'm contemplating
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I'd let you watch, I would invite you
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But the queens we use would not excite you
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So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
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parlours --
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COMPANY:
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One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
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The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
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You'll find a god in every golden cloister
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A little flesh, a little history
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I can feel an angel sliding up to me
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One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
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Not much between despair and ecstasy
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One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
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Can't be too careful with your company
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I can feel the devil walking next to me
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One Night In Bangkok
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