Song Of Scheherazade: Fanfare / The Betrayal / The Sultan / Love Theme / The Young Prince And Princess As Told By Scheherazade / Festival Preparations / Fugue For The Sultan / The Festival / Finale

Lyrics for Song Of Scheherazade: Fanfare / The Betrayal / The Sultan / Love Theme / The Young Prince And Princess As Told By Scheherazade / Festival Preparations / Fugue For The Sultan / The Festival / Finale

Sultan King, cruel majesty Ordered that his women die A single knife is for all his wives Takes his pleasure than their lives And so for many days With the jail Sultan had his way Wives were put to death His name on their dying breath Then one day as evening came Sultan sends for him a wife "Choose her well, charms I wish to see Bring her, send her in to me" Then came Scheherazade Doomed his soul And her beauty shone Like a flower grown Gentle as he'd ever known Scheherazade bewitched him With songs with jeweled keys Of princes and of heroes And Eastern fantasies And so for many days With the jail Sultan had his way Wives were put to death His name on their dying breath Scheherazade bewitched him With songs with jeweled keys Of princes and of heroes And Eastern fantasiesTold her tales of sultans and talismans and rings A thousand and one nights she sang to entertain her king She sings Shahrazad Shahrazad Shahrazad Shahrazad Shahrazad Shahrazad And you would cause the sun to see your light and then be shamed You cover darkness with a thousand secret flames With your love Oh my love Oh my love My love And I would cause the winds to blow a hundred different days And bring the perfumes of the gardens of the ways Of your love Oh my love Oh my love My love Crystal and the clay Nights and the days All on the prince's seal Eagle of the sky Lion of the earth This is what the seal is worth What the seal is worth Holds all of the dreams of a man Tapestries, wishes, a In the land of the sun She was born to the moon She was born to the moon She was born to the moon She was born to the sun She was born to the moon She was born to the moon She was born to the sun She was born to the sun She was born to the moon She was born to the moon She was born to the sunScheherazade, this day is yours The bearers of your gifts Now all around you stand The finest silk made in the land Is waiting for your choice It shimmers at your hand Scheherazade, your life is won You have today the Sultan's love The people watch you step into the sun Stalls and bars of every kind Food piled high on woven leaves For all to eat Drums and flutes at every turn Music winding, twisting Through the crowded street Caravans from far away Bring people, laughing people come To see the Sultan in Baghdad today Scheherazade, her name is known Her tale is told; the Sultan let her life be spared A festival begins this day To celebrate her fame The people sing her praise Stories sung, the crowds are dancing To the music and the entertainment All the voices sing The people call to see the King The Sultan smiles, his story's just begun The Sultan and Scheherazade are one Scheherazade, Scheherazade Told her tales of Sultans Of talismans and rings A thousand and one nights she sang To entertain her King, she sings Scheherazade, Scheherazade, Scheherazade, Scheherazade Scheherazade, Scheherazade, Scheherazade, Scheherazade Scheherazade, Scheherazade, Scheherazade, Scheherazade