The story behind "The Sheik Is Coming"

In November 2021 for some days we stayed at a hotel in Dubai. One evening while we were sitting in the pool bar rumours broke out among the employees and we heard whispers „…the sheik is coming!“ Everyone got nervous and half an hour later a helicopter arrived and four men in black suits and another dressed in the traditional Dubai robe left it and entered the hotel. Later we heard that a gala dinner took place in the hotel and the sheik was one of the honored guests.

When the helicopter was leaving about 2 hours later we already sat on the balcony of our hotel room and saw it vanishing towards Dubai city. By that time the first four bars of „The Sheik is Coming“ had already been written down ;-)

The arabic sounding instrument in the intro, outro and backing of the song is an Oud - a traditional arabian lute with 6-doubled strings.

Key: C major
Measure: 4/4
Tempo: 120