Beautiful Queen Of The Nile 1917

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6 January 2011
2011

The sphinx has been silent
for thousands of years,
and guarded the secrets
of Egypt right well,
But if it would speak,
what stories of tears
and tales of sweet love it could tell!
For here in its shadow
a wondrous love came,
a soldier and siren
a tent for their home,
the Queen of the Nile,
Cleopatra, her name,
and Anthony, bravest of Rome.
He sued her and wooed her
o'er desert and ocean,
and this was his song of devotion.

Queen of the Nile,
you've made my life well worth while.
Somehow some way
some time and some day
I'll pray that I'll win your smile,
For my crown I gave
to be your own humble slave.
Here dear with you on this isle
My beautiful Queen of the Nile.

Queen of the Nile,
you've made my life well worth while.
Somehow some way
some time and some day
I'll pray that I'll win your smile,
For my crown I gave
to be your own humble slave.
Here dear with you on this isle
My beautiful Queen of the Nile.

When Antony came with his thousands of men
to Egypt to rule them,
a conqueror brave,
The Siren, she woo'd and subdued him
and then the conqueror was her slave.
And he who had ruled over Caesar himself,
For fair Cleopatra was lowly and mean,
Gave up claim for fame,
for power or self,
to love and be loved by his Queen.
And swains of today
sing the same old love story
that Antony sang in his glory.

Queen of the Nile,
you've made my life well worth while.
Somehow some way
some time and some day
I'll pray that I'll win your smile,
For my crown I gave
to be your own humble slave.
Here dear with you on this isle
My beautiful Queen of the Nile.

Queen of the Nile,
you've made my life well worth while.
Somehow some way
some time and some day
I'll pray that I'll win your smile,
For my crown I gave
to be your own humble slave.
Here dear with you on this isle
My beautiful Queen of the Nile.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Beautiful Queen Of The Nile 1917
from "Cheer Up" at The New York Hippodrome
Music by Raymond Hubble
Lyrics by John L.Golden
© MCMXVII by John L.Golden, Raymond Hubbell & R.H.Burnside
New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 6 January 2011 at 16.48
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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