A' LET ME TELL YA' 'BOUT
AHAB
THE ARAB
THE SHEIK OF
THE BURNIN' SANDS
HE HAD 'A EMERALDS
AND RUBIES
JUST A DRIPPIN'
OFF A HIM
AND A RING ON
EVERY FINGER
OF HIS HAND
HE WORE A
BIG OLD TURBAN
WRAPPED AROUND
HIS HEAD
AND A SCIMITAR
BY HIS SIDE
AND EVERY EVENIN'
ABOUT MIDNIGHT
HE'D JUMP ON HIS
CAMEL NAMED CLYDE
AND RIDE
SILENTLY
THROUGH THE NIGHT
TO THE SULTAN'S TENT
WHERE HE WOULD
SECRETLY MEET UP
WITH FATEEMA
OF THE SEVEN VEILS
THE SWINGIN'EST
NUMBER ONE DANCER
IN THE SULTAN'S
WHOLE HAREM
CAUSE LIKE
HIM AND HER HAD A
THING GOIN' YA KNOW
AND THEY'D BEEN
CARRYIN' ON
FOR SOME TIME NOW
BEHIND THE
SULTAN'S BACK
AND YOU COULD
HEAR HIM TALK TO HIS
CAMEL AS HE RODE OUT
ACROSS THE DUNES
HIS VOICE WOULD CUT
THROUGH THE STILL
NIGHT DESERT AIR
AND HE'D SAY
YO YI YO YO YO
OH OH OH YI YI YI
YO HO YO
OH OH OH YI YI YI
WHICH IS ARABIC FOR
WHOA BABIES
AND CLYDE'D SAY
OOH-UH
OOH-UH
OOH-UH
WELL HE BROUGHT
HIS CAMEL TO A
SCREACHIN' HALT
IN THE REAR OF
FATEEMA'S TENT
JUMPED OFF CLYDE
SNUCK AROUND
THE CORNER
AND INTO THE TENT
HE WENT
THERE HE SAW
FATEEMA
LAYIN' ON A
ZEBRA SKIN RUG
WITH RINGS
ON HER FINGERS AND
BELLS ON HER TOES
AND A BONE
IN HER NOSE
HO HO
THERE SHE WAS
FRIENDS
AND NEIGHBORS
LAYIN' THERE IN ALL
HER RADIANT BEAUTY
EATING ON A RAISIN
AND A GRAPE
AND AN APRICOT
AND A POMEGRANATE
A BOWL OF
CHITTERLINGS
TWO BANANAS
THREE HERSHEY BARS
AND SIPPIN' ON AN
RC CO-COLA
LISTENIN'
TO HER TRANSISTOR
WATCHIN' THE
GRAND OLE OPRY
AND READIN'
MAD MAGAZINE
WHILE SHE SUNG
DOES YOUR
CHEWING GUM
LOSE IT'S FLAVOR
AND AHAB WALKED
UP TO HER
AND HE'D SAY
YO YI YI YI YI OH OH OH
YI YI YI YO HO YO
OH OH OH YI OH YI
WHICH IS ARABIC FOR
LET'S TWIST AGAIN
LIKE WE DID LAST
SUMMER BABIES
AND SHE'D SAY
UHHH UHHH UHHH
UHHHH AH-A AH-A
UH-HUH UH-HUH
UUUH-HA UUUH-HA
CRRRAAAZY BABY
ALL OF A SUDDEN
THE SULTAN WALKED IN
AHAB KNEW THAT
THIS WAS THE END
HIM AND FATEEMA WAS
CAUGHT BY SURPRISE
AND THE SULTAN
HAD FIRE
FLASHIN' OUT OF
HIS EYES
WELL THE SULTAN
CHARGED AT AHAB
INTENDIN'
TO MAKE A DENT
IN HIS HEAD
BUT HE FLED
WITH FATEEMA
AND OUT OF THE TENT
'A THEY WENT
THEY JUMPED ON CLYDE
AND STARTED TO RIDE
CUTTIN' OUT
ACROSS THE SAND
WITH THE SULTAN'S
WHOLE ARMY
IN HOT PURSUIT
ON AND ON THEY RAN
WELL TO MAKE
A LONG STORY SHORT
THEY GOT AWAY
CAUSE THERE WEREN'T
NO ANIMAL ALIVE
THAT COULD KEEP UP
WITH CLYDE
ONCE HE GOT STARTED
CAUSE HE WAS
THE SWIFTEST STEED
ON THE
OLD DESERT BABIES
AND HE MADE IT
ACROSS THE BORDER
WHERE AHAB HOCKED
ALL HIS RUBIES
AND EMERALDS
AND HE BOUGHT 'EM A
SWINGIN' LITTLE
SPLIT LEVEL PAD
AND LIVED HAPPY
EVER AFTER
YEAH
AND THAT'S THE STORY
'BOUT AHAB
THE ARAB
THE SHEIK OF THE
BURNIN' SANDS
AHAB
THE ARAB
THE SWINGIN' SHEIK
OF THE BURNIN' SANDS
YEAH