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