Lirik dan Chord Lagu One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

Lagu tersebut merupakan bagian dari album Chess milik ABBA, di mana mereka berkolaborasi dengan Murray Head untuk rap di bagian verse-nya.

Turut menjadi trek B-side untuk singel Murray Head, "Merano", lagu ini diproduseri oleh Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, dan Björn Ulvaeus.

Simak lirik dan chord lagu "One Night in Bangkok" berikut ini.

[Verse 1]
C/D         Dm
Bangkok, Oriental setting
             C/D                               Dm
And the city don't know that the city is getting
       C/D                                 Dm
The crème de la crème of the chess world in a
C/D                                  Dm              Gm7
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Dm7
Time flies -- doesn't seem a minute
               C/D             Dm
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
C/D                        Dm
All change -- don't you know that when you
C/D                                    Dm
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
Gm7
It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --
    C#dim
or this place!

[Chorus 1]
Dm               Bb                       F         C/E   Dm
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
Gm               C                       Gm7
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
Dm              Bb                F     C/E Dm
You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
                     Gm                 C          Gm7
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
Dm              Gm                C       Dm
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

[Verse 2]
Dm
One town's very like another

When your head's down over your pieces, brother
Dm
(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)
Gm7
Whaddya mean? You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --
Dm
Tea, girls, warm, sweet

Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Dm
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist

Whose every move's among the purest
Gm7                                                             Gm7 C#dim
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

[Chorus 2]
Dm               Bb                        F      C/E  Dm
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
                    Gm                        C           Gm7
Not much between despair and ecstasy
Dm               Bb                       F        C/E   Dm
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
                    Gm                     C             Gm7 Dm
Can't be too careful with your company
                     Gm                C         Dm
I can feel the devil walking next to me

[Verse 3]
C/D     Dm 
Siam's gonna be the witness 
           C/D                  Dm |
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness |      ||:(Dm) C/D Dm |C/D Dm |
C/D                Dm                                        | | C/D Dm |C/D Dm |
This grips me more than would a | | Gm7 | :|| Gm7 A7b9|
C/D                          Dm 
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
Gm7
     And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --
Dm7
       I don't see you guys rating
       C/D     Dm
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
     C/D                 Dm
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
            C/D                           Dm                   Gm7
But the queens we use would not excite you
                                                                                           Gm7
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
               C#dim
parlours

[Chorus 3]
Dm               Bb                       F          C/E   Dm
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
                    Gm                    C                       Gm7
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
                   Dm               Bb   F     C/E Dm
You'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
           Gm               C       Gm7 Dm
A little flesh, a little histo-ry
                    Gm               C
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

[Chorus 4]
Dm               Bb                        F      C/E  Dm
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
                    Gm                       C            Gm7
Not much between despair and ecstasy
Dm               Bb                       F        C/E  Dm
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Gm              C                         Gm7         Dm
Can't be too careful with your company
Gm               C                   Dm       Dm9
I can feel the devil walking next to me