The Brothers Come To Egypt / Grovel, Grovel chords by Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Verse 1
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So!
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Back in Canaan the future
looked rough
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Jacob's family were finding it tough

Verse 2
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For the famine has caught
us unprepared
We are thin, we are ill
We are getting scared
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It's enough to make
anyone weep
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We are down to our very
last sheep

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Verse 3

We will starve if we hang around here

But in Egypt there's food

going spare

Verse 4

They've got corn They've got

meat

They've got fruit and drinks

And if we have the time

Verse 5
We could see the Sphinx!
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So they finally decided to
go (here we go)
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Off to Egypt to see brother Jo!
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So they all lay before (doo- doo- ah)
Joseph's feet (feet, feet, feet)

Verse 6
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Mighty prince,
give us (doo- doo- ah)
Something to eat (eat, eat, eat)

Verse 7
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Joseph found it a strain
(doo- doo- bah)
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Not to laugh because
(ha- ha- ha- ha, ha!)
Not a brother among them
(oh, brother)
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Knew who he was
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(who he was)

Verse 8

I shall now take them all for a ride

After all they have tried fratricide

Verse 9

I dreamed that in the fields one day

The corn gave me sign

Your eleven sheaves of corn

Verse 10
All turned and bowed to mine
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I dreamed I saw eleven stars
The sun, the moon and sky
Bowing down before my star
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And now I realise why

Verse 11

How do I know where you came from? You

could be spies

Telling me that you are hungry

That could be lies

Verse 12
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How do I know who you are? Why do you think I
should
help you?
Would you help me? (Yes!)
Why on earth should I believe you?

Verse 13
I've no guarantee!
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Grovel, grovel
Cringe, bow, stoop, fall
Worship, worship
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Beg, kneel, sponge, crawl
Grovel, grovel (grovel, grovel)
Cringe, bow, stoop, fall (grovel,
grovel)
Worship, worship
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(grovel, grovel)
Beg, kneel, sponge,
crawl (grovel, grovel)

Verse 14

We are just eleven brothers Good

men and true

Though we know we count for nothing

Verse 15
When up next to you
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Honesty's our middle name
Life is slowly ebbing from us
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Hope's almost gone
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It's getting very hard to see us
From sideways on

Verse 16
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Grovel, grovel (grovel, grovel)
Cringe, bow, stoop, fall (grovel,
A 
grovel)
Worship, worship (grovel, grovel)
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Beg, kneel, sponge,
crawl (grovel, grovel)

Verse 17
I rather like the way you're talking Astute and sincere
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Suddenly your tragic story
It gets me right here
This is what we hoped he'd say

Verse 18

All this tugging at my heartstrings

Seems quite justified

I shall give you what you came for

And lots more beside

Verse 19
Grovel, grovel (thank you, thank you)
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Grovel, grovel (cringe, bow, stoop,
fall)
Grovel,
grovel (worship, worship)
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Grovel, grovel (beg, kneel,
sponge, crawl)
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Thank you, thank you (grovel, grovel)
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Cringe, bow, stoop, fall (grovel,
grovel)
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Worship, worship (grovel, grovel)
Beg, kneel, sponge (grovel)
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Crawl...

Verse 20

Joseph handed them sack- loads of food

And they grovelled with base gratitude

Verse 21
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Then, unseen,
Joseph nipped (yum, yum, yum)
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Out around the back
(yum, yum, yum, yum)
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And planted a cup in (yum,
yum, yum, yum)
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Young Benjamin's sack
(yum, yum, yum)

Verse 22
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When the brothers were ready to go
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Joseph turned to them all
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With a terrible stare and said
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No!
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No!
No! No! No!
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