A 1918 song based on an Intermezzo – One Step.
Words by Herbert Reynolds.
Music by M. David and Wm Hewitt.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- With what joy girl and boy
Have always loved to look
In that great big wonderful book
Magic lamps, harem vamps
Reward their hungry glance
Tales of wonder, love and romance
Refrain
Arabian nights, golden nights
Dear delights of oriental mystery
Aladdin bold, Sinbad old
All have read the fascinating history
The plots old Ali weaves
With forty thieves as satelites
In Bagdad, nobody was sad
What a time they had
Through those Arabian Nights
- Burning lights through the night
To read each story through
That’s what I did, how about you
Laughed and wept ’till I slept
Then dreamed about the book
Waking up to take one more look
Sung here by T. Craft: