Walk Like an Egyptian

Walk Like An Egyptian

(music by the group "Bangles," Columbia album "Different Night," 1986)

by Randi E. Spiegel, Passover 2003

A long time ago, it is told

The Jews were slaves unto Pharaoh

If they moved too slow (oh way oh)

They’d be whipped to keep the status quo.

What was found floating in the Nile?

A child in a wicker basket

Found by the queen (oh way oh)

And raised in the Pharaoh’s palace

Moses left ‘cause he did not want to

Ay oh way oh, ay oh way oh

Walk like an Egyptian.

GOd spoke through a burning bush

Said that Pharaoh needed to be pushed

To free the Jews (oh way oh)

Or terrible plagues they’d undergo.

Moses returned to the land he'd fled

But Pharaoh laughed at what Moses said

He did not believe (oh way oh)

Kept talking like an Egyptian.

First the blood made Pharaoh harden and

Ay oh way oh, ay oh way oh

Walk like an Egyptian.

Frogs and lice, they were the next two plagues

Wild beasts trampled in the marketplace

Then the cattle died (oh way oh)

But GOd was not done with Pharaoh yet.

Next there were the boils and the hail

The locusts swarmed, causing crops to fail

Darkness then fell (oh way oh)

The first-borns were killed by GOd's hand.

Moses led the Jews that dark night

The Red Sea was where they crossed in fright

Pharaoh's armies drowned (oh way oh)

They walked the line like Egyptian.

Jews were saved and never had to

Ay oh way oh, ay oh way oh

Walk like an Egyptian

Walk like an Egyptian.

Words copyright (c) 2003 by Randi E. Spiegel. Permission is hereby granted to reproduce this material in any non-profit medium provided that its content is not altered and this notice is appended. I would appreciate receiving a copy of any publication in which it appears: Randi Spiegel, 48 Roosevelt Street, Roseland, NJ 07068 /