G#m F# E F#
G#m A#m x14
[Verse 1]
G#m A#
Sultan king cruel majesty
C#m G#m
Ordered that his women die
G#m A#
A single night this for all his wives
C#m G#m
Takes his pleasure then their lives
C# C#m G#m C# C#m G#m
And so for many days with the dawn
C#m G#m
The sultan had his way
C#m G#m
Wives were put to death
C#m A# G#m
His name on their dying breath
G#m A#m B C# B A#m G#m
[Verse 2]
G#m A#
Then one day as the evening came
C#m G#m
Sultan sends for him a wife
G#m A#
Choose her well, charms I wish to see
C#m G#m
Bring her, send her in to me
C# C#m G#m C# C#m G#m
Then came Scheherazade to his side
C#m G#m
And her beauty shone
C#m G#m
Like a flower grown
C#m A# G#m
Gentle as he'd ever known
G#m A#m B C# F# B C#
G#m A#m B C# F# B C#
[Bridge]
G#m B
Scheherazade bewitched him
E A#
With songs of jewelled kings
G#m B
Princes and of heroes
E A#
And eastern fantasies
G#m B
Told him tales of sultans
E A#
And talismans and rings
G#m B
A thousand and one nights she sang
E A#
To entertain her king
[Refrain]
G# A# B E A#
She sings, Schehera
G# A# B E A#
zade Schehera x5
[Outro]
G# B E D
zade
D#m C# B A#
D#m
