Where Is the Pharaoh's Toys

I have seen the formation Of ancient lands I have seen the creation Of ancient hands Pyramids That soar to the sky Here amid Temples majestic and high I have seen Wonderful things Tombs and scenes Of ancient kings I have seen huge blocks of stone Cut by hand of flesh and bone Fit in place for reasons known To the architect alone Each stone block from the quarry Has a structure to help build Each chisel cut tells a story Of a mason’s guild I have seen towering obelisks With finely chiseled hieroglyphics And ancient golden relics Like toys in the attic I have seen ancient mummies The walking living dead Take care or you’ll become these Walking around instead Dinner I have eaten With pharaohs and kings by many names And I have beaten Them at their many games I have sat on the temple steps In the shadow of a large mastaba I chatted with the great Amenhotep And the gods Isis, Anubis, Thoth and Ra They told me I could become a god If I live and died in the manner of a king I thought that was a little bit odd For I came here wanting nothing Tomorrow we go off to fight The empire of Kadesh If you come, you will see some sights That you will never forget I saw the battle of Kadesh Now written about on the temple walls I saw the battle in the flesh Now celebrated in the temple halls I watched the battle and from what I saw Neither side won the war From my standpoint the battle was a draw But the Pharaoh will celebrate a win evermore Pharaoh Ramses lived to the ripe old age of around ninety two He outlived a lot of his hundred children and many wives He’s remembered as Pharaoh Ramses the Great who Built many monuments and revitalized the Egyptian’s lives When they found Pharaoh Ramses the Great’s body They found no silver or gold Only the great king’s mummy Thousands of years old The archeologists all made a great noise Where was all the silver and gold? Where was all the old man’s toys? That the grave robbers stole and sold A lot of his stuff is still out there In Egyptian antique stores And Egyptian homes and country fairs To get something you could spend a lot for sure Nowadays Ramses is lying in state in the Cairo Museum And men and women and girls and boys All flock to the museum to see him And Tutankhamen’s wonderful toys