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Oh, Camel Driver

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Oh, Camel Driver

Mohsen Moussawi

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Tempo
172 BPM
Key
D minor 81% confidence
Camelot
7A

Also reads as 86 or 344 BPM — tempo doubling is normal and both are correct.

Lyrics

O cameleer, go gently — the ease of my soul is going

and the heart I kept beside me, with the thief of hearts it is going

I am left forsaken by them, helpless, and sick with wanting them

as though, far from them, a sting into my very bone is going

I said: by cunning and by charm I will hide the wound within

it will not stay hidden — over my threshold the blood is going

Hold back the litter, cameleer, drive not the caravan so hard

for from love of that walking cypress, it seems my soul is going

They go, trailing their hem; I stay, tasting the poison of being alone

ask me now for no sign of myself — from my heart my own sign is going

My headstrong love has turned away and left my pleasure joyless

I am a censer heaped with fire, and from its head the smoke is going

For all that tyranny of theirs, and that vow with no ground beneath it

I keep their memory in my breast, or onto my tongue it is going

Come back and sit upon my eye, O lovely thief of hearts

for the uproar and the cry from earth up to my heaven is going

From night till dawn I do not sleep, and no one's counsel do I hear

nor do I take this road by choice — from my hand the rein is going

I said: I will weep until the camels stick, like donkeys, in the mire

but even this I cannot do, for with the caravan my heart is going

To be patient without my love's embrace, to turn from the one who holds my heart

though it lies not in my power, still by that the matter from me is going

Of the soul's departure from the body they speak every kind of word

I, with my own eyes, have seen it — my soul is going

Sa'di! To cry out against us was unworthy of you, faithless one

I cannot bear this cruelty — past all my crying the matter is going

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