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Arabian Nights (Aladdin) Lyrics
{Original First Verse}
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where it's flat and immense
And the heat is intense
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
When the wind's from the east
And the sun's from the west
And the sand in the glass is right
Come on down
Stop on by
Hop a carpet and fly
To another Arabian night
Arabian nights
Like Arabian days
More often than not
Are hotter than hot
In a lot of good ways
Arabian nights
'Neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
Could fall and fall hard
Out there on the dunes
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
Where the caravan camels roam
Where it's flat and immense
And the heat is intense
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
When the wind's from the east
And the sun's from the west
And the sand in the glass is right
Come on down
Stop on by
Hop a carpet and fly
To another Arabian night
Arabian nights
Like Arabian days
More often than not
Are hotter than hot
In a lot of good ways
Arabian nights
'Neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
Could fall and fall hard
Out there on the dunes
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After the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee protested, Disney relented and changed the lines about the ear and face to: "where the sun is immense and the heat is intense."
That's the way it has been since the movie came out on home video in 1993 - even though the Arab-American group still decried keeping the word "barbaric" and the movie retains a scene showing the behavior the group denounced, when a market seller tries to cut off the hand of Princess Jasmine after she takes an apple.
P.C. is so overrated.
I love this song. Lol. I did a project/report on Saudi Arabia earlier this year. I used this song on the poster. I know, I'm horrible. But, hey, it fits. Lol, here's a funny story about this song. At lunch, my friends and I, all joke about each other. And like we make fun of each other in every way. One day we were joking about if we were pornstars, what our "tapes" would be called. One friend's tape was going to be called, "Sonny Delight", because his name is Sonny. And another friend who is of Middle Eastern/Indian, we said his was going to be called, "Arabian Knights." I know, we're horrible. But he said it was clever.
-linds
The main refrain in Portuguese would be this way:
As noites da Arábia E os dias também... É sempre tão quente, mas Faz com que a gente Se sinta tão bem Tem um belo luar E os dias de mais Quem se distrair Pode até cair Ficar para trás.
Thanks
Obs: The letter in Portuguese Go on cuttin some ears. Good Bye
Such a haunting song. Great opening to a great movie.
Why were they upset at the hand-cut-off-because-you-are-a-thief thing? Wasn't that law in effect at the supposed time of aladdin? if so, why is that so wrong to depict? History is far from glamorous...