Oldham's Burning Sands Songtext
von The Oldham Tinkers

′Twas on the plains of Oldham's burning sands,
That I was born with fingers on both hands,
And down below the orange groves at Werneth,
I was made the premier dancer of them all.
In the harem, where they wear ′em pretty low,
And sometimes when they wear 'em none at all,

When the sultan saw me do my cowheel glide,
Well I blushed and dropped my eyes onto the floor.
In my quaint Egyptian style, my quaint Egyptian style,
How I wriggled, twist and twiggled like a crocodile,
Hear my Egyptian language flow, Eeny, meeny, miny moe,
Penny on the water, out goes she,
Hit—chy Koo it's treat skinney Lizzy is the harem queen.


More foreign tongue intermezzo

Well the harem clock had just struck ten-to-four,
When the sultan met me at the harem door.
He said "mi sugar-plum, th′as captivated me
And I blushed an′ I dropped m' eyes onto the floor.

In the harem, where they wear ′em pretty low,
And sometimes when they wear 'em none at all,
When the sultan saw me do my cowheel glide,
Well I blushed and dropped my eyes onto the floor

In my quaint Egyptian style, my quaint Egyptian style,
How I wriggled, twist and twiggled like a crocodile,
Hear my Egyptian language flow, Eeny, meeny, miny moe,
Penny on the water, out goes she,
Hit—chy Koo it′s treat skinney Lizzy is the harem queen.