text: 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 for the moment
  The desolate the suffering
  The plundered, the oppressed
  The gods love Nubia
  Their glorious creation
  Its songs roll sweetly
  Across the harvest plain
  The tears of Nubia
  A passing aberration
  They wash into the river
  And are never cried again
  The gods love Nubia
  We have to keep believing
  The scattered and divided
  We are still its heart
  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 for 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 its heart
  The fall of Nubia
  Ephemeral and fleeting
  The spirit always burning
  Though the flesh is torn apart
  My spirit will keep on burning
  Though the flesh is torn -
  - Apart
  Take me in my dreams recurring
  One more longing backward glance