Zigeuner

Once upon a time

Many years ago

Lived a fair princess

Hating to confess

Loneliness was torturing her so

Then a gipsy came

Called to her by name

Woo'd her with a song

Sensuous and strong

All the summer long;

Her passion seemed to tremble like a living flame

Play to me beneath the Summer moon

Zigeuner!—Zigeuner!—Zigeuner!

All I ask of life is just to listen

To the songs that you sing

My spirit like a bird on the wing

Your melodies adoring—soaring!

Call to me with some barbaric tune

Zigeuner!—Zigeuner!—Zigeuner!

Now you have me in your power

Play to me for just an hour

Zigeuner!

Bid my weeping cease

Melody that brings

Merciful release

Promises of peace

Through the gentle throbbing of the strings

Music of the plain

Music of the wild

Come to me again

Here me not in vain

Soothe a heart in pain

And let me to my happiness be reconciled