Murray Head – One Night In Bangkok chords

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

The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
C/D        Dm                          Gm7Show with everything but Yul Brynner

DmTime flies -- doesn't seem a minute
           C/D          DmSince the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it

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

Gm7                                                           It's Iceland -- or the Philippines -- or Hastings -- or --
        A7b9
or this place!


1st Chorus:

Dm             Bb              F       C/E  Dm  One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
             Gm              C                Gm7The 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


2nd Verse:

Dm   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
Gm7                                                   DmWhaddya 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
Gm7                                                     A7b9       I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine


2nd Chorus:

Dm           Bb              F    C/E DmOne night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
            Gm               C       Gm7Not much between despair and ecstasy
Dm           Bb              F     C/E  DmOne night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
             Gm                C       Gm7   DmCan't be too careful with your company
               Gm            C       DmI can feel the devil walking next to me



Solo: A7 for 8 bars


3rd Verse:

Dm                                      |
Siam's gonna be the witness             | (Dm) only played on 2nd rotation 
                                        |    
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness| ||:(Dm) C/D Dm |C/D Dm |
                                        |   | C/D Dm |C/D Dm |
This grips me more than would a         |   | Gm7 | :|| Gm7 A7b9|Muddy old river or reclining Buddha     | Synths plays this for the 3rd verse
Gm7   And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --
Dm  I don't see you guys rating

The kind of mate I'm contemplating

I'd let you watch, I would invite you
                                           Gm7But the queens we use would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
       A7b9
parlours


3rd Chorus:

Dm            Bb              F       C/E  Dm One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
             Gm              C                 Gm7The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
Dm            Bb           F   C/E DmYou'll find a god in every gol-den cloister
         Gm              C     Gm7   DmA little flesh, a little histo-ry
              Gm            C     I can feel an angel sliding up to me

Dm            Bb              F    C/E Dm One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
            Gm               C    Gm7   DmNot much between despair and ecstasy
Dm           Bb              F     C/E  DmOne night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
             Gm                C    Gm7  DmCan't be too careful with your company
               Gm            C       Dm      DmI can feel the devil walking next to me



A7b9 is from down to up: A(bass),G(7th),Bb(b9),C# and E, if anyone is wondering.