Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows paintin' our faces
Traces of romance in our heads

Heaven's holdin' a half-moon
Shinin' just for us
Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust

Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, 'til the evenin' ends
'Til the evenin' ends

You don't have to answer
There's no need to speak
I'll be your belly dancer, prancer
And you can be my sheik

I know your Daddy's a sultan
A nomad known to all
With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him
Jump at his beck and call

But you won't need no harem, honey
When I'm by your side
And you won't need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride

Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, 'til the evenin' ends
'Til the evenin' ends

Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Got shadows paintin' our faces
And traces of romance in our heads

Oh, come on ...

Nice tune and the Amos Garrett guitar solo is top notch.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

cool tune

theAudience said:

Damn, that's my favorite part.

I really like this song.

CinisterCee said:

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

The first version I ever heard of this was by Brand New Heavies. There are a lot of cheesy covers of it, but theirs is genuinely good!

RipHer2Shreds said:

I never heard that cover. I gotta check it out.


How ya doin, Dan?

Romera said:

I'm alright, sweets. How are you? Heard you had a great - if initially frightening - Prince experience. Their cover is on the Rare Grooves and Remixes CD.

i just put this on my ipod. my dad used to play this alot when he'd play his records.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I Feel kinda ick but I'll be groovy.

brownsugar said:

It's on a blue eyes soul compilation I made myself.

its sung by Minnie Riperton on the internet downloads lol

One of the Prince books I read, I think by Jo Bream? said that Prince was ofteen heard playing "Midnight at the Oasis" on guitar in his high school music room when he was just learning guitar.. He said you could hear him play it all down the hall... how cool would that be to have Prince play that now!

On youtube you can find a clip where Gladys Knight and the pips sings a few lines of it...

http://www.youtube.com/wa...s%20knight

paisleypark4 said:

Wasn't it first done by Maria Muldaer?

Icicle said:

i lkie it she was mention on a betty wright record called the clean up woman and i enjoy music very much

RipHer2Shreds said:

Ditto. It always felt familiar though. I think I had memories locked away of Minnie Ripperton singing it.

cherylblues said:

Did she record the song too?

Cool song. Reminds me of when I was little, which is nice.