Lirik dan Chord Lagu One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Murray Head merilis lagu berjudul "One Night in Bangkok" pada 1984.

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.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Just One Night - Eric Martin

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