From the 1953 Broadway production “Kismet”.
Words and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest.
Based on themes of A. Borodin.
Edited by Wm. Ellfeldt.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Play on the cymbal, the timbal, the lyre
Play with appropriate passion
Fashion songs of delight and delicious desire
For the night of my nights
Come where the so well beloved is waiting
Where the rose and the jasmine mingle
While I tell her the moon is for mating
And ’tis sin to be single
Let peacocks and monkeys in purple adornings
Show her the way to my bridal chamber
Then get you gone ’till the morn of my mornings
After the night of my nights
‘Tis the night of my nights
‘Tis the night of my nights