The Brothers Come to Egypt / Grovel, Grovel-The Theatrelands

[ti:The Brothers Came to Egypt Grovel, Grovel] [ar:The Showcast] [al:Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Brothers Come to Egypt / Grovel, Grovel - The Theatrelands [00:00.68]So back in Canaan the future looked rough [00:03.76] [00:04.52]Jacob's family were finding it tough [00:07.10] [00:08.01]For the famine has caught us unprepared [00:10.74] [00:11.65]We are thin [00:12.49]We are ill [00:13.38]We are getting scared [00:15.32]It's enough to make anyone weep [00:17.90] [00:18.89]We are down to our very last sheep [00:21.60] [00:22.58]We will starve if we hang around here [00:25.12] [00:26.11]But in Egypt there's food going spare [00:28.63] [00:29.74]They've got corn [00:30.76]They've got meat [00:31.64]They've got fruit and drinks [00:33.19] [00:33.70]And if we have the time [00:35.25]We could see the Sphinx [00:36.61] [00:37.19]So they finally decided to go [00:40.04] [00:40.83]Off to Egypt to see brother Jo [00:43.22] [00:49.92]So they all lay before [00:51.63]Joseph's feet [00:52.41] [00:53.59]Mighty prince give us something to eat [00:56.07] [00:57.18]Joseph found it a strain [00:58.98]Not to laugh because [01:00.20] [01:00.73]Not a brother among them [01:02.83]Knew who he was [01:04.59]I shall now take them all for a ride [01:06.97] [01:08.09]After all they have tried fratricide [01:10.67] [01:14.37]I dreamed that in the fields one day [01:17.82]The corn gave me sign [01:19.87] [01:21.34]Your eleven sheaves of corn [01:24.91]All turned and bowed to mine [01:27.11] [01:28.26]I dreamed I saw eleven stars [01:31.30] [01:31.95]The sun the moon and sky [01:34.20] [01:35.76]Bowing down before my star [01:39.01]And now I realise why [01:41.52] [01:43.32]How do I know where you came from [01:45.65]You could be spies [01:46.93] [01:47.87]Telling me that you are hungry - [01:49.60] [01:50.23]That could be lies [01:51.48] [01:52.88]How do I know who you are [01:56.11] [01:57.14]Why do you think I should help you [01:58.96] [01:59.51]Would you help me [02:00.66] [02:01.73]Why on earth should I believe you [02:03.32] [02:03.91]I've no guarantee [02:05.35]Grovel grovel cringe bow [02:08.36]Stoop fall [02:09.04] [02:09.84]Worship worship beg kneel [02:12.74]Sponge crawl [02:13.33] [02:14.53]Grovel grovel cringe bow [02:17.38]Stoop fall [02:17.98] [02:19.04]Worship worship beg kneel [02:21.93]Sponge crawl [02:22.59] [02:24.79]We are just eleven brothers [02:26.16] [02:27.07]Good men and true [02:28.27] [02:29.23]Though we know we count for nothing [02:31.47]When up next to you [02:32.73] [02:34.46]Honesty's are middle name [02:37.66] [02:38.54]Life is slowly ebbing from us [02:40.86]Hope's almost gone [02:42.14] [02:43.07]It's getting very hard to see us [02:45.42]From sideways on [02:47.16]Grovel grovel cringe bow [02:49.60]Stoop fall [02:50.48] [02:51.29]Worship worship beg kneel [02:54.18]Sponge crawl [02:54.83] [02:57.01]I rather like the way you're talking [02:59.14]Astute and sincere [03:00.39] [03:01.55]Suddenly your tragic story [03:03.13] [03:03.80]It gets me right here [03:05.23] [03:06.80]This is what we hoped he'd say [03:09.74] [03:10.77]All this tugging at my heartstrings [03:12.98]Seems quite justified [03:14.07] [03:15.38]I shall give you what you came for [03:17.59]And lots more beside [03:19.26]Grovel grovel cringe bow [03:21.89]Stoop fall [03:22.48] [03:23.54]Worship worship beg kneel [03:26.44]Sponge crawl [03:27.07] [03:28.20]Thank you thank you cringe [03:30.65]Bow stoop fall [03:31.55] [03:32.74]Worship worship beg kneel [03:35.55]Sponge crawl [03:36.26] [03:43.31]Joseph handed them sackloads of food [03:48.12] [03:49.94]And they grovelled with base gratitude [03:53.15] [03:56.15]Then unseen Joseph out [03:59.36]Around the back [04:02.94]And planted a cup [04:05.71]In young Benjamin's sack