Lyrics
By the Nile so lazily flowing
Rich in beaut’ousness dwelt a maiden
Played in the silv’ry sunkist waters
Lapping the shores of heated sands
Came a lover as the nightfall hover’d o’er drowsy earth.
Serenaded siren sorceress
With plaintive lovers lay
CHORUS
Hyja my pretty Nile Queen
Whose radiant eyes do vie with gleaming stars above
Slave so humble to my Nile Queen I will be
Love unruly bids me beg unduly
Hear my piteous plea.
Look not on me with scorn dear
My burning soul cries out with a love intense for you—
Hyja maid divine hear your lover’s cry
Far from these desert skies We’ll hasten you and I
You’ll be my Orient Queen for aye.
