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