Testo The Sultan

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, ...