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Potiphar - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Potiphar

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Lyric

Joseph was taken to Egypt in chains and sold

Where he was bought by a captain named Potiphar

Potiphar had very few cares

He was one of Egypt's millionaires

Having made a fortune buying shares in

(Pyramids)

Potiphar had made a huge pile

Owned a large percentage of the Nile

(Meant that I could really live in style)

And he did

(Oh, I did)

Joseph was an unimportant

Slave who found he liked his master

Consequently worked much harder

Even with devotion

Potiphar could see that Joseph

Was a cut above the average

Made him leader of his household

Maximum promotion!

Potiphar was cool and so fine

But my wife would never tow the line

It's all there in chapter thirty-nine

Of Genesis

(Don't believe everything you read, dear)

She was beautiful but

Evil

Saw a lot of men against his will

He would have to tell her that she still was his

(You're mine)

Joseph's looks and handsome figure

Had attracted her attention

Every morning she would beckon

"Come and lie with me, love"

Joseph wanted to resist her

'Til one day she proved too eager

Joseph cried in vain

"Please stop, I don't believe in free love!"

(Pity)

Potiphar was counting shekels

In his den below the bedroom

When he heard a mighty rumpus

Clattering above him

Suddenly he knew his riches

Couldn't buy him what he wanted

Gold would never make him happy

If she didn't love him

Letting out a mighty roar (arrgh!)

Potiphar burst through the door

Joseph, I'll see you rot in jail

The things you have done are beyond the pale

Poor, poor Joseph

Locked up in a cell

Things ain't going well, hey

Locked up in a cell

Poor, poor Joseph

Locked up in a cell

Things ain't going well, hey

Locked up in a cell

Locked up in a cell

- It's already the end -