Midnight At The Oasis

Words & Music by David Nichtern
Recorded by Maria Muldaur, 1974


 DM7                G7 C7/9 Am7 
Midnight at the o - a - sis -- 

DM7                G7 C7/9 Bb9
Send your camel to bed

DM7                  G7 C7/9 
Shadows paintin' our fa -ces,

F7    Bb9    Em7     G/B      A7
Tra - ces of romance in our heads.


DM7                 G7  C7/9 Am7
Heaven's holdin' a half-moon

DM7              G7  C7/9 Bb9
Shinin' just for us;

DM7                  G7 C7/9   F7   Bb9
Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon

    Em7       G/B     A7
And kick up a little dust.



Refrain:


Cm7  F7   G#7          Gm7
Come on, Cactus is our friend;

Cm7         F7         G#7    Gm7
He'll point us out the way.

Cm7  F7   G#7             Gm7
Come on, till the evenin' ends,

C7/9     Bb9      DM7
Till the evenin' ends.


DM7               G7   C7/9  Am7
You don't have to an - swer --

DM7                 G7  C7/9 Bb9
There's no need to speak

DM7                 G7   C7/9  F7    Bb9
I'll be your belly dan - cer, pran - cer,

    Em7    G/B     A7
And you can be my sheik.



(Instrumental Interlude - 1 Verse & 1 Refrain)


DM7                    G7 C7/9  Am7
I know your Daddy's a sul -tan,

  DM7    G7     C7/9  Bb9
A nomad known to all,

     DM7              G7  C7/9           F7   Bb9
With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him,

    Em7      G/B      A7
Jump at his beck and call.


    DM7               G7     C7/9  Am7
But you won't need no harem, honey,

    DM7   G7     C7/9  Bb9
When I am by your side;

   DM7                G7  C7/9  F7  Bb9
And you won't need no cam - el, no  no,

       Em7      G/B    A7
When I take you for a ride.



Repeat Refrain:



 DM7                G7 C7/9 Am7
Midnight at the o - a - sis -- 

DM7       G7       C7/9   Bb9
Send your camel to bed;

    DM7                  G7  C7/9  
Got shadows paintin' our fa - ces,

     F7   Bb9    Em7    G/B      A7
And tra - ces of romance in our heads.

I probably have taken more liberties with the chording of this song than any other transcription I've done to date -- but overall, I'm quite satisfied with the result. There's a "standard" tab of this on the net in a variety of places, all derived from a version done by the late, great Andrew Rogers. There's also one, purportedly by author David Nictern and intended to "simplify" the progression-- but for my money, it is about as close to the original as it is to "Moon River." And of course, I'll never be Amos Garrett (the guitarist on Muldaur's recording.) For clarity, I'm using the G7 symbol to mean 32300x and the C7/6 is 032330.

The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.