Ahab The Arab Chords by Ray Stevens

[C] _ _ Let me tell you about A.
Abdi-A-Rab, the sheik [F] of the burning [C] sand.
He had emeralds and rubies just dripping off of him, had a ring on every finger of his hand.
He wore a big old turban wrapped around his head, scimitar by his side.
And [N] every evening about midnight he'd jump on his camel [C] named [B] [Am] Clyde and ride
silently through the night to the Sultan's tent where he'd secretly meet with Fatima of the Seven Veils,
swinging his grade A number [F] one U.S. Choice government inspected dancer in the Sultan's whole harem
cause him and her had a thing going here.
And they'd been carrying on for some time now behind the Sultan's back
and you could hear him talk to his camel as he rode [B] out across the [Am] dunes.
His voice would cut through the still night desert air and he'd say
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _
[Dm] _ [Am] which certainly flowed.
Whoa Baby!
And Clyde's name
_ [F] _ Well [F#m] [C] he brought that camel to a screeching halt
in the rear of Fatimah's tent jumped off Clyde, snook around the corner into the tent and he went.
There he saw the dema laying on the zebra skin road
[E] Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes and a bone in her [C] nose, ho ho
[A] _
There she was, friends, lying [Am] there in all her radiant beauty
Eating on a raisin, grape, apricot, pomegranate, bowl of chitlins
Two bananas, three candy bars, sipping on an ice cold Coca-Cola
Listening to her transistors and singing, does your chewing gum lose [Dm] its flavors?
[Em] [Am] Ahab walked up to her, looked down into her eyes and tenderly he sang
[F] _ There she was, friends, lying there in all her radiant beauty
Eating on _ _ _ [Am] a raisin, grape, apricot, pomegranate, bowl of chitlins
Which is there, and because
Let's twist again like we did last summer, baby
_ She looked up at him off the road, slapping big white lashes _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F#] All of a sudden, a Sultan walked [D#] in.
Ahab knew that this was the end.
Him and Fatima were caught by [F#] surprise and the Sultan had [G] fire flashing out of his [C] eyes.
Well the Sultan charged at Ahab, [C] intending to make a den in his head.
But he fled with Fatima and out of the tent they went.
They jumped on his fight and started to ride, cutting out across the sand,
with a [Dm] soul's whole army in hot pursuit, [C] on and on they [B] ran.
[Am] _ Well, to make a long story short, they got away,
because they wanted no animal alive what to keep up with [F] Clyde once he got started,
because he was the fastest speed on the whole desert, baby.
Anyway, they made it across the border where Ahab hocked all his rubies and emeralds
and bought him a swangy little split-level pad and he lived happily ever after.
_ [Dm] And that's the [C] story about Ahab the Arab, [F] sheik of the [C] burning sand.
_ Ahab the Arab, the sheik of the burning sand.
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