Sultan king cruel majesty

Ordered that his women die

A single night this for all his wives

Takes his pleasure then their lives



And so for many days with the dawn

The sultan had his way

Wives were put to death

His name on their dying breath



Then one day as the 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 to his side

And her beauty shone

Like a flower grown

Gentle as he'd ever known



Scheherazade bewitched him

With songs of jewelled keys

Princes and of heroes

And eastern fantasies



Told him tales of sultans

And talismans and rings

A thousand and one nights she sang

To entertain her king

She sings, Scheherazade, Scheherazade, etc