My Cairo Maid
Composer(s): Bud De Sylva; G. Foster; Chris Schonberg



Dreaming, I am always dreaming 
When the stars are gleaming, of my Cairo maid 
I believe she wants me 
For her mem'ry haunts me
I sit and pine till skies are graying, saying

Smiling, I can see her smiling 
in her way beguiling, as the shadows fall 
For the moon above her 
Tells her that I love her 
And will return o'er desert, swinging, singing

I know a maid in Cairo 
In dreamy Cairo, beside the Nile 
I know she's yearning, her heart is burning for my returning 
so, for a while, I'll travel upon my camel 
o'er scorching gravel unto my shrine 
Which means, that I'll go to dreamy Cairo and make this Cairo maiden mine