CAIRO-LAND
Type
Song
Composer
Will E. Dulmage
Lyricist
Richard W. Pascoe
Publisher
Chas. E. Roat Music Co.
Cover Artist
Whitworth
Notes
Written at the time of King Tut's discovery, the Valley of the Kings gets a line.

The European male is enamored of an Egyptian beauty. There is no question that she waits for him.

He will take a caravan route to Cairo, traveling at night.
Lyrics

Lonesome for the Eastern skies
My heart is yearning for that old Egyptian shore,
Lonesome for a maiden's eyes,
I know she waits for me each night so patiently.

CHORUS:

Cairo Land, I'll cross your moonlit sand,
Until I reach the valley of the Kings.
Cairo Land, my love will understand,
Her tears I'll kiss away, When I come back to stay,
My Cairo Land, my heart you still command,
For Allah knows I long for my rose,
Some-day my Queen of the Nile
Will meet me there with a smile,
Away down in Cairo Land.

Dreaming when the sun sinks low,
Beside my caravan the desert wide I scan
Dreaming on my way I go
Until I see each light of Cairo through the night.

Country
Egypt