A Egyptian deity from 1908.
Words by Will D. Cobb.
Music by Gus Edwards.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In the land of Cleopatra
Where the palm trees take the palm
And the pyramids appear amid the sand
There lives a little Sphinx
I’d give a lot to label “mine”
Egyptian Deity Divine
And when the tun retires for the night
Beneath her window in a turban white
I twang a bar on my guitar
And sing to eyes that shame the evening star
Chorus
Sunburned Salome
Sunburned Salome
Pack your grip and take a trip
With me across the foam
Don’t put on your shoes and stockings
Leave your clothes at home
And you’ll top the bill in Vaudeville
My Sunburned Salome
- It was on the streets of Cairo
With her dark Egyptian art
She danced herself into my open heart one day
Her father by the Prophet swore an Oriental “nay”
But stolen fruits are sweet they say
And soon across the Desert sands I’ll ride
On camel, I, with my sweet stolen bride
Though Papa swear and tear his hair
I’ll plead to her my Queen, beyond compare
Sung here by Vancha March: