Ali Baba - Maddy Prior

Ali Baba burning the midnight oil

He don’t fret and he don’t toil

But who will put out the light

Who can compete with those Arabian Nights?

In the desert a nomad is no bad thing

Pitch your tent next to a Bedouin

But choose a good date to read your palm

And listen to the words of the desert song

Ali Baba burning the midnight oil

He don’t fret and he don’t toil

But who will put out the light

Who can compete with those Arabian Nights?

In the harems in Baghdad how bazaar

Veiled in the back of a Cadillac car

The Saracen swords fought the infidel hordes

Richard the Lionheart and the Christendom Lords

Ali Baba burning the midnight oil

He don’t fret and he don’t toil

But who will put out the light

Who can compete with those Arabian Nights?

Conspicuous in purda down Harley Street

The Sheiks of the desert got the system beat

But all the warriors of Islam

Never did win what the oil has won

Ali Baba burning the midnight oil

He don’t fret and he don’t toil

But who will put out the light

Who can compete with those Arabian Nights?