The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs a group of Moroccan fighters against French colonial rule. It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native guerrillas.
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