Joseph - Poor Poor Joseph (Key: OR Fmaj)

Title: Poor, Poor Joseph
Format: MP3 Backing Track - Instrumental - Karaoke
Created in the style of: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Genre: Movie, Musical & Soundtrack
Language: English
Era: 1990s
Key: OR Fmaj
Backing vocals: No
More info: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the history of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis.
Lyrics: Yes
 
Next day, far from home
The brothers planned the repulsive crime

Let us grab him now
Do him in, while we've got the time

This they did and made the most of it
Tore his coat and flung him in a pit

Let us leave him here
All alone, and he's bound to die

When some Ishmaelites
A hairy crew, came riding by

In a flash the brothers changed their plan

We need cash
Let's sell him if we can

Poor, poor Joseph, what'cha gonna do?
Things look bad for you, hey, what'cha gonna do?
Poor, poor Joseph, what'cha gonna do?
Things look bad for you, hey, what'cha gonna do?

Could you use a slave
You hairy bunch of Ishmaelites
Young, strong, well-behaved
Going cheap and he reads and writes

In a trice the dirty deal was done
Silver coins for Jacob's favourite son

Then the Ishmaelites
Galloped off with the slave in tow
Off to Egypt where Joseph was not keen to go
It wouldn't be a picnic he could tell

And I don't speak Egyptian very well

Joseph's brothers tore
His precious multi-coloured coat
Having ripped it up
They next attacked a passing goat
Soon the wretched creature was no more
They dipped his coat in blood and guts and gore

Oh now brothers, how low can you stoop
You make a sordid group, hey, how low can you stoop
Poor, poor Joseph, sold to be a slave
Situation's grave, hey, sold to be a slave
 
Composer: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER/TIM RICE (REALLY USEFUL GROUP)