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Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Brothers Came To Egypt Lyrics

[Narrator]
So
Back in Canaan the future looked rough
Jacob's family were finding it tough

[All 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

[Ruben]
We will starve if we hang around here

[Zebulun]
But in Egypt there's food going spare

[Issachar]
They've got corn, they've got meat
They've got fruit and drinks

[Dan & Benjamin]
And if we have the time
Wе could see the Sphinx

[Narrator]
So they finally decidеd to go
[Brothers]
Here we go!

[Narrator]
Off to Egypt to see brother Joe
So they all lay before Joseph's feet

[All 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

I dreamed that in the fields one day
The corn gave me a sign
Your eleven sheaves of corn
All turned and bowed to mine

I dreamed I saw eleven stars
The sun and moon and sky
Bowing down before my star
And now I realize why!
How do I know where you come from?
You could be spies!
Telling me that you are hungry
That could be lies!
How do I know who you are?
Why do you think I should help you?
Would you help me?

[All Brothers]
Yes!

[Joseph]
Why on earth should I believe you?
I've no guarantee

[All Brothers, (Narrator)]
Grovel, grovel
Cringe, bow, stoop, fall
Worship, worship
Beg, kneel, sponge, crawl

Grovel, (grovel) grovel (grovel)
Cringe, bow, (grovel) stoop, fall (grovel)
Worship, (grovel) worship (grovel)
Beg, kneel, (grovel) sponge, crawl (grovel)
We are just eleven brothers
Good men and true
Though we know we count for nothing
When up next to you
Honesty's our middle name
Life is slowly ebbing from us
Hope's almost gone
It's getting very hard to see us
From sideways on

Grovel, (grovel) grovel (grovel)
Cringe, bow, (grovel) stoop, fall (grovel)
Worship, (grovel) worship (grovel)
Beg, kneel, (grovel) sponge, crawl (grovel)

[Joseph]
I rather like the way you're talking
Astute and sincere
Suddenly your tragic story
Gets me right here

[All Brothers]
This is what we hoped he'd say

[Joseph, (All Brothers)]
All this tugging at my heartstrings
(Grovel, grovel)
Seems quite justified
(Cringe, bow, stoop, fall)
I shall give you what you came for
(Worship, worship)
And lots more beside
(Beg, kneel, sponge, crawl)

[All Brothers, (Narrator)]
Thank you, (grovel) thank you (grovel)
Cringe, bow, (grovel) stoop, fall (grovel)
Worship, (grovel) worship (grovel)
Beg, kneel, (grovel) sponge, crawl (grovel)

Thank you, thank you, cringe, bow, stoop, fall
Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl

[Narrator]
Joseph handed them sack loads of food
And they groveled with base gratitude

[Ensemble]
Then, unseen, Joseph nipped out around the back
And planted a cup in young Benjamin's sack