Andrew Lloyd Webber

The Brothers Come To Egypt

Andrew Lloyd Webber


Narrator 
So back in Canaan the future looked rough 
Jacob's family were finding it tough 
Brothers 
For the famine has caught us unprepared 
We are thin 
We are ill 
We are getting scared 
It's enough to make anyone weep 
We are down to our very last sheep 
Reuben 
We will starve if we hang around here 
Zebulon 
But in Egypt there's food going spare 
Asher 
They've got corn 
They've got meat 
They've got fruit and drinks 
Dan 
And if we have the time 
We could see the Sphinx 
Narrator 
So they finally decided to go 
Off to Egypt to see brother Jo 
So they all lay before Joseph's feet 
Brothers 
Mighty prince, give us something to eat 
Narrator 
Joseph found it a strain 
Not to laugh because 
Not a brother among them 
Knew who he was 
Joseph 
I shall now take them all for a ride 
After all they have tried fratricide