The Pharaohs

THE PHARAOHS by JOHN M. ARRIBAS It wasn’t the Pharaohs that ruled the Nile It was the priests that sanctioned their style As long as the Pharaoh kept playing ball The priests insured that he’d never fall To make him acceptable to poor and unshod They elevated his position to a living god Scams have existed for thousands of years They prey on ones greed and mortal fears People have been duped by the glib tongue Like Lenin, Amin, Castro and Mao-Tse-Tung Cultures are swayed by the gifted speaker Obscuring the facts from the reality seeker Elections are stolen with factual distortions Twisting the truth into diametric contortions Demagogues and tyrants have little to fear They just say what the masses want to hear Independent thought can be a risky proposition A word in the wrong setting can send you to prison That kind of oppression can’t happen here We’re a democracy with nothing to fear They follow the polls ,the trends are clear Our leaders will say what we want to hear