Midnight At The Oasis
Maria Muldaur

Capo 3


Verse 1:

C               F    Fm
Midnight at the oa – sis
C                   F  Bb  B  C
Send your camel to bed
C                     F    Fm
Shadows paintin' our fa – ces 
Eb    Ebm      F             G
Tra - ces of romance in our heads


Verse 2:

C                   F    Fm
Heaven's holdin' a half-moon
C                F  Bb  B  C
Shinin' just for us
C                    F    Fm
Let's slip off to a sand dune
Eb    Ebm       F                G
Real soon, and kick up a little dust


Bridge:

C#   D#   F#            G#
Come on, Cactus is our friend
C#     D#           F#
He'll point out the way
C#   D#   F#             G#
Come on, 'til the evenin' ends
C#        D#     F#
'Til the evenin' ends


Verse 3:

C                 F     Fm
You don't have to an – swer 
C                   F   Bb  B
There's no need to speak
C                   F    Fm
I'll be your belly dan – cer 
Eb     Ebm       F             G
Pran - cer, and you can be my sheik


Interlude:

C   F   Fm
C   F   Bb  B
C   F   Fm
Eb  Ebm  F  G

C#  D#  G#  A#
C#  D#  G#  A#
C#  D#  G#  A#
F  G


Verse 4:

C                      F    Fm
I know your Daddy's a sul - tan
C                 F  Bb  B
A nomad known to all
C                     F    Fm
With fifty girls to attend him
          Eb  Ebm
They all send him
 F              G
Jump at his beck and call


Verse 5:

C                      F      Fm
But you won't need no harem, honey
C                 F  Bb  B
When I'm by your side
 C                    F    Fm  
And you won't need no ca - mel
Eb   Ebm
No,   no
        F              G
When I take you for a ride


[Repeat Bridge]


[Repeat Verse 1]


Coda:

F  E           C
     Oh, come on...