The brothers come to Egypt / Grovel grovel
(Narrator,
brothers, Joseph : )
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1. So back in Canaan the future looked rough,
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Jacob's fam'ly
were finding it tough,
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for
the famine has caught us unprepared,
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we
are thin, we are ill, we are getting scared.
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It's enough to make anyone weep, we are down to our very last sheep.
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2. We will starve if we hang around here,
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and
in Egypt there's food going spare.
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They've got corn, they've got
meat, they've got fruit and drinks,
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and
if we have the time we could see the Sphinx.
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So they fin'lly
decided to go off to Egypt to see brother Jo.
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3. So they all lay before Joseph's feet,
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“Mighty prince
give us something to eat.”
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Joseph found it a strain not
to laugh because
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not a
brother among them knew who he was.
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I shall now take them all for
a ride, after all they have tried fratricide.
(Joseph : )
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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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I dreamed I saw eleven stars,
the sun and moon and sky,
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bowing
down before my star, and now I dream of those vines
(Joseph : )
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4. How do I know where you come from? You could be spies.
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telling
me that you are hungry, that could be lies.
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How do I know who you are ?
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Why do you think I should help
you? Would you help me
?
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Why on earth should I believe
you? I've no guarantee.
(Choir : )
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Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop,
fall.
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Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl.
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Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop,
fall.
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Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl.
(Brothers : )
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5. We are just eleven brothers, good men and true,
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though
we know we count for nothing, when up next to you.
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Honesty's our middle name,
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life
is slowly ebbing from us, hope's almost gone,
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it's
getting very hard to see us from sideways on.
(Choir : )
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Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop,
fall.
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Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl.
(Joseph : )
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6. I rather like the way you're talking, astute and sincere,
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suddenly
your tragic story gets me right here.
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This is what we hoped you'd
say,
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all
this tugging at my heartstrings seems quite justified.
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I shall give you what you came
for and lots more beside.
(Choir : )
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Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop,
fall.
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Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl.
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Thank you, thank you, cringe, bow, stoop, fall.
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Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl.
(Narrator : )
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Joseph handed them sack loads
of food,
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and they grovelled
with base gratitude,
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Then, unseen Joseph nipped out
around the back,
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and
planted a cup in young Benjamin's sack.
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When the brothers were ready
to go,
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Joseph turned to them all with
a terrible stare and said :
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No ! No ! No ! No ! No !
(Rice / Webber)