The Gods Love Nubia

Aida
Take me in my dreams recurring
Cheerful as a childhood dance
Into one more taste of freedom
One more longing backward glance

In the sway of somber music I shall never, never understand Let me slip into the sweeter Chorus of that other land... The gods love Nubia The beautiful, the golden The radiant, the fertile The gentle and the blessed The pain of Nubia Is only of the moment The desolate the suffering The plundered, the oppressed

Nubians Mmm mmm Mmm mmm Mmm mmm Mmm mmm Hmm hmm Hmm hmm Hmm hmm Hmm hmm hmm Hmm hmm Hmm hmm Hmm hmm Hmm hmm

Nehebka
The gods love Nubia,
Their glorious creation
Its songs roll sweetly across
The harvest plain

Nehebka and Aida The tears of Nubia A passing aberration They wash into the river and are Never cried again Nehebka, Aida, Mereb, and Nubian Woman The gods love Nubia, We have to keep believing Though scattered and divided We are still it's heart

Hmm Hmm Hmm Never cried again Nubian Men Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh ooh ooh

All
The fall of Nubia
Ephemeral and fleeting
The spirit always burning
Though the flesh is torn apart

Take me in my dreams recurring
Cheerful as a childhood dance
Into one more taste of freedom
One more longing backward glance
The gods love Nubia, the beautiful, the golden
The radiant, the fertile, the gentle and the blessed
The pain of Nubia is only of the moment
The desolate the suffering, the plundered, the oppressed

The gods love Nubia, we have to keep believing
Though scattered and divided we are still it's heart
The fall of Nubia ephemeral and fleeting the spirit always
Burning though the flesh is torn apart
The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn apart

Aida
Apart

All
Take me in my dreams recurring
One more longing backward glance