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We have all of us read how the Israelites fled / From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, / And Pharaoh's fierce troop were all put "in the soup" / When the water rolled softly o'er every galoot of 'em. / The Jews were so glad when old Pharaoh was "had" / That they sounded their timbrels and capered like mad. / You see he was hated from Jordan to Cairo -- / Whence comes the expression "to buck against faro".
For forty long years, 'midst perils and fears / In deserts with never a tramline to follow by, / The Israelite horde went roaming abroad / Like so many sundowners out on the wallaby. / When Moses, who led 'em, and taught 'em, and fed 'em, / Was dying, he murmured "A rorty old hoss you are: / I give you command of the whole of the band" -- / And handed the Government over to Joshua.