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Introduction:
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Let me tell you 'bout Ahab, the Arab
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The sheik of the burnin sand
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He had emeralds and rubies just drippon offa him
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And a ring on every finger of his hand
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He wore a big ol' turban, wrapped around his head
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And a scimitar by his side, and
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Silently through the night to the sulten's tent where he would secretly meet up
with Fatima of the Seven Veils, swingingest grade "A" number one US choice dancer
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Well he brought that camel to a screeching halt
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(eeeeeerrrrrh!) in the rear of Fatima's tent
Jumped off Clyde, snuck around the corner
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And into the tent he went
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There he saw Fatima, layin on a zebra skin rug, with
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(laugh) There she was friends, lyin there in all her radiant beauty, eatin on a
raisen, grape, apricot, pomegranate, bowl of chittlin's, two bananas, three Hershey
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('Round and around and around and around and around and around and around)
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Yeah, that's the story 'bout Ahab, the Arab
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The sheik of the burnin sand
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Ahab, the Arab, the sheik of the burnin sand