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The Egyptians
(Original by Flanders & Swann "The English")

The rottenest bits of these deserts of ours
We've left in the hands of unfriendly powers
Examine the Libyan, Nubian or Scyth
You'll find he's a stinker as likely as not

Egyptians Egyptians Egyptians are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

The Libyan is mean as we're all well aware
He's bony and blotchy and covered with hair
He eats salty dates, he sleeps all the day
And hasn't got priests to show him the way

Egyptians Egyptians Egyptians are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

The Hittite now our contempt is beneath
He sleeps in his armour and lies through his teeth
He shoots dead policemen or so I have heard
And blames it on Kemet and Amenophis the Third

Egyptians are moral Egyptians are good
And clever and modest and misunderstood

The Nubian's dishonest, he cheats when he can
He's little and dark more like monkey than man
He works in gold-mines, best friend is a rat
And he sings far too loud, far too often and flaaaaat

Egyptians Egyptians Egyptians are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

And crossing the sea one cannot say much
For the Syrians, Phoenecians, slave traders as such
The Assyrians are Assyrian, the Babylonians are mad
And the Greeks and Philistines eat garlic in bed

Egyptians are noble Egyptians are nice
And worth any other at double the price

And all the world over each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won
And they practice before hand which spoils all the fun

Egyptians Egyptians Egyptians are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad
It's knowing they're foreign that's driving them mad
The Egyptians are all that a nation should be
And the flower of the Egyptians are Ihyyyyy and meeeeeee!!!!