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Grant

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  1. Hi Everybody,

    we're trying to translate the famous One Night In Bangkok to another language.

    Can you help us with the definition of the phrases of the lyrics:

    Bangkok, 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 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 no ordinary venue

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

    One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

    The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

    You'll find a god in every golden cloister

    And if you're lucky then the god's a she

    I can feel an angel sliding up to me

    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

    Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --

    Tea, girls, warm and 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

    I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

    One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

    Not much between despair and ecstasy

    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

    Can't be too careful with your company

    I can feel the devil walking next to me

    Siam's gonna be the witness

    To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

    This grips me more than would a

    Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

    And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --

    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 would not excite you

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

    One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster

    The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free

    You'll find a god in every golden cloister

    A little flesh, a little history

    I can feel an angel sliding up to me

    One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble

    Not much between despair and ecstasy

    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble

    Can't be too careful with your company

    I can feel the devil walking next to me

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    For example I understand what the "world is oysters" mean but most of the phrases still unintelligible for me.

    I know what is the "cloister" mean but I can't understand what the author mean using this word in this song.

    Thanks in advance!

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