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One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head - Guitar Chords
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Version 1
[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
[Solo]
A7 for 8 bars
[Verse 3]
C/D Dm |
Siam's gonna be the witness | (Dm) only played on 2nd rotation
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 | Synths plays this for the 3rd verse
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
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