Mezrab Song

MEZRAB SONG

Come minstrels and poets – come tellers of note

Come down to the Mezrab you writers in quotes

There's people here hungry for your anecdotes

Step on up, take the stage, tell your story

It's a gift from a Persian with orators grace

It's a visionary brew with a melting-pot taste

It's a ride on four winds to an Eastern oasis

Step up take the stage tell your story

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Tell us all of your journeys on life's dusty trails

Of your dreams and your conquests, your dragons and grails

There's an audience waiting to hear all your tales

Step on up, take the stage, tell your story

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From A Thousand One Nights to the dark Brothers Grimm

To your diary confessions, let taste guide your whim

With a tug and a tear, with a grimmace or grin

Share the light and the joy of your stories

No judges no critics, you give what you can

There's a teller of worth in each woman and man

Whether lawyer or traveller or driver of trams

You can bless us all here with your stories

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Tell us all of your journeys on life's dusty trails

Of your dreams and your conquests, your dragons and grails

There's an audience waiting to hear all your tales

Step on up, take the stage, tell your story

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Lay back on your cushion in this troubadour's lair

And feast on a meal of theatrical fair

If you like take your place on the orator's chair

And you'll never forget what you gave us

Feed us tall stories of fiction or truth

Whether short in duration or long in the tooth

You will get a response that will bring down the roof

And you'll never regret what you gave us

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Tell us all of your journeys on life's dusty trails

Of your dreams and your conquests, your dragons and grails

There's an audience waiting to hear all your tales

Step on up, take the stage, tell your story

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There's a night for your English, a night for your Dutch

But the boundaries of language have never meant much

If you tell with your heart other hearts you will touch

And your tales will be heard by all races

In poem or in prose – in rhythm or rhyme

Let voice be your whisky and words be your wine

Tell me your story and I'll tell you mine

And we'll meet in the smiles on our faces

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Tell us all of your journeys on life's dusty trails

Of your dreams and your conquests, your dragons and grails

There's an audience waiting to hear all your tales

Step on up, take the stage, tell your story