Poor, poor Joseph
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(Narrator : )
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1. Next day far from home, the brothers planned the repulsive crime.
(Brothers : )
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Let us grab him now, do him in
while we’ve got the time.
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(Narrator : )
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This they did and made the
most of it,
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tore
his coat and flung him in a pit.
(Brothers : )
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Let us leave him here, all
alone, and he's bound to die.
(Narrator : )
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When some Ishmaelites,
a hairy crew, came riding by .....
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....in a flash the brothers changed their plan.
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D
We need cash, let’s sell him
if we can.
(Narrator
& Choir : )
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D
Poor, poor Joseph, what'cha gonna do
?
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D
Things look bad for you, hey, what'cha gonna do?
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D
Poor, poor Joseph, what'cha gonna do
?
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Things look bad for you, hey, what'cha gonna do?
(Brothers : )
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2. Could you use a slave, you hairy bunch of Ishmaelites ?
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Young, strong, well behaved,
going cheap, and he reads and writes !
(Narrator : )
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G D
In a trice the dirty deal was
done,
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silver
coins for Jacob's fav'rite son.
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Then the Ishmaelites
galloped off with a slave in tow,
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off
to Egypt, where Joseph was not keen to go.
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It wouldn't be a picnic he
could tell,
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C G
D
and
he didn't speak Egyptian very well.
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3. Joseph's brothers tore his precious multicoloured coat.
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having
ripped it up, they next attacked a passing goat.
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Soon the wretched creature was
no more,
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D
they
dipped his coat in blood and guts and gore.
(Narrator
& Choir : )
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Oh, now brothers, how low can
you stoop ?
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You make a sordid group, hey, how
low can you stoop ?
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Poor, poor Joseph, sold to be
a slave,
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Bb
situation's
grave, hey, sold to be a slave.
(orig. = capo 3rd; midi = capo 2nd) (Rice /
Webber)