The Betrayal chords by Renaissance

Intro:
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