Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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
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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
It's Iceland - - or the Philippines - - or
Verse 2
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world's your oyster
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the pearls ain't free
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You'll find a god in every
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golden cloister
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the god's a she
Verse 3
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When your head's down over your pieces,
brother
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it's really such a pity
To be looking at the board,
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Tea, girls, warm and sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset
Maugham suite
Verse 6
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Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist Whose
every move's among the purest
sunshine
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Verse 7
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a hard man humble
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Not much between despair and ecstasy
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One night in Bangkok and
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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
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
And thank God I'm only watching the
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
So you better go back to your bars, your temples,
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your massage parlours - -
Verse 9
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pearls ain't free
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You'll find a god in every golden cloister
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a hard man humble
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One night in Bangkok and the
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tough guys tumble
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Can't be too careful with your com pany
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I can feel the devil walking next to me
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