Joseph’s dreams (video)

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Joseph's coat annoyed his brothers.

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1. But what makes us mad,

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are the things that Joseph tells us of the dreams he's often had.

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I dreamed that in the fields one day, the corn gave me a sign,

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your eleven sheaves of corn all turned and bowed to mine.

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My sheaf was quite a sight to see, a golden sheaf and tall,

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yours were green and second-rate, and really rather small.

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2. This is not the kind of thing, we brothers like to hear,

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it seems to us that Joseph and his dreams should disappear.

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I dreamed I saw eleven stars, the sun and moon and sky,

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bowing down before my star, it made me wonder why.

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Could it be that I was born for higher things than you ?

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A post in someone's government, a ministry or two ?

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3. The dreams of our dear brother are the decade's biggest yawn,

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his talk of stars and golden sheaves is just a load of corn.

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Not only is he tactless but he's also rather dim,

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for there's eleven of us and there's only one of him.

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The dreams of course will not come true,

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that is, we think, they won't come true,

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that is, we hope, they won't come true.

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What if he's right all along ? + Em - C - Em - A - C - B7 - Bb

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+ Em - C - Em - A + What if he's right all along ?

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4. The dreams are more than crystal clear, the writing on the wall

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means that Joseph some day soon will rise above us all.

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The accuracy of the dreams we brothers do not know,

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but one thing we are sure about,

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the dreamer (dreamer), the dreamer (dreamer),

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the dreamer (dreamer), the dreamer (dreamer),

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the dreamer, dreamer, dreamer, dreamer, dreamer has to go.

(orig. = capo 3rd) (Webber / Rice)