Key: F major
Verse 1
the brothers planned a repulsive crime
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D
G
Em
while we've got the time
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D
If they did and made the most of it
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D
Saw his coat and flung him in a fit
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D
Let us leave him here all alone
and bound to die
When the stormy Ishmaelites,
the hairy crew,
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came riding by
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D
the brothers changed their plan
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if we can
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Bm
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Oh, poor Joseph, what you gonna do?
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Things look bad for you,
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hey, what you gonna do?
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Bm
D
Poor, Joseph, what you gonna do?
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D
Things look bad for you,
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D
hey, what you gonna do?
Could you use a slave?
You hairy bunch of Ishmaelites
Good, strong, well -behaved
Storing cheese, heavy reeds, and rice
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Gm
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D
In a trice, the dirty deal we've done
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G
Silver coins for
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D
Jacob's fa vourite son
Van of the Ishmaelites
Galloped off with his slave in tow
Off to Egypt where Joseph
was not keen to go
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D
It wouldn't be a picnic, he could tell
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A
Oh, and I don't speak Egyptian very well
precious multicolored coat
Having ripped it up,
they next attacked a passing ghost
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D
creature was no more
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C
They dipped his coat in blood
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D
and guts and gore
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Bb
how low can you stoop?
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Bb
You make a sword in blue pay
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Bb
How low can you stoop?
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Bb
soon to be a slave
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Bb
Situations create a way
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for someone to be a soul
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