Midnight At The Oasis

Minnie Riperton

Midnight at the oasis

Send your camel to bed

Shadows paintin' our faces

Traces of romance in our heads

Heaven's holdin' a half-moon

Shinin' just for us

Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon

And kick up a little dust

Come on, Cactus is our friend

He'll point out the way

Come on, till the evenin' ends

Till the evenin' ends

You don't have to answer

There's no need to speak

I'll be your belly dancer, prancer

And you can be my sheik

------ guitar solo ------

I know your Daddy's a sultan

A nomad known to all With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him , Jump at his beck and call

But you won't need no harem, honey When I'm by your side

And you won't need no camel, no no When I take you for a ride,

Come on,

Cactus is our friend He'll point out the way

Come on, till the evenin' ends Till the evenin' ends

Midnight at the oasis Send your camel to bed

Got shadows paintin' our faces And traces of romance in our heads