Dance of the Robe
Elton John & Heather Headley * Track #9 On Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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Album Aida (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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- #3The Past Is Another Land
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- #4Another Pyramid
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- #5How I Know You
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- #6My Strongest Suit
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- #7Enchantment Passing Through
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- #8My Strongest Suit (Reprise)
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- #9Dance of the Robe
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- #10Not Me
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- #12
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- #13A Step Too Far
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- #14Easy As Life
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- #15Like Father, Like Son
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- #16Radames’ Letter
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- #17How I Know You (reprise)
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- #18Written in the Stars (Broadway)
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- #19I Know the Truth
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- #20Elaborate Lives (Reprise)
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- #21
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- #22Every Story Is A Love Story (Reprise)
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- #23The Past Is Another Land
Heather Headley
Dance of the Robe by Elton John (Ft. Heather Headley)
Performed by
Elton JohnHeather HeadleyProduced by
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In this iconic song from the Aida stage musical, the titular Nubian Princess finds herself confronted and overwhelmed by the needs of her people, who like her have been bound into slavery.
On stage, Aida is surrounded by the Nubian slaves, who plead with her to lead them, and dance frantically arou...
Dance of the Robe Lyrics
[AIDA]
It's knowing what they want of me that scares me
It's knowing, having followed, I must lead
It's knowing that each person there compares me
To those in my past whom I now succeed
But how can whatever I do for them now be enough?
Be enough
[NUBIANS]
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you
Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish, but nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!
[NEHEBKA]
Your robe should be golden, your robe should be perfect
Instead of this ragged concoction of thread
But may you be moved by its desperate beauty
To give us new life, for we'd rather be dead
Then live in the squalor and shame of the slave
To the dance!
[NUBIANS]
Aida! Aida!
All we ask of you
Is a lifetime of service, wisdom, courage
To ask more would be selfish, but nothing less will do
Aida! Aida!
Aida...!
Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida!
Aida!
[AIDA]
I know expectations are wild and almost
Beyond my fulfillment, but they won't hear
A word of a doubt or see signs of a weakness
My nigh-on-impossible duty is clear
And if I can rekindle our ancestors' dreams, it's enough
It's enough
[NUBIANS]
Aida! Aida! Aida!
Aida! Aida! Aida!
[AIDA]
It's enough!
[NUBIANS]
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
Dance of the Robe Q&A
Who wrote Dance of the Robe's ?
Dance of the Robe was written by Tim Rice & Elton John.
Who produced Dance of the Robe's ?
Dance of the Robe was produced by Walt Disney Records.