Joseph - Potiphar

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

07-Potiphar

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情境：約瑟被賣到波提乏家之後所發生的事。

SYNOPSIS：Things that happened during Joseph's time in Potiphar's house.

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(Narrator)

Joseph was taken to Egypt in chains and sold,

Where he was bought by a captain named by Potiphar

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(Narrator & Male Ensemble)

Potiphar had very few cares

He was one of Egypt's millionaires

Having made a fortune buying shares in

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(Potiphar)

Pyramids

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(Narrator & Male Ensemble)

Potiphar had made a huge pile

Owned a large percentage of the Nile

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(Potiphar)

Meant that I could really live in style

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(Narrator & Male Ensemble)

And he did

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(Narrator)

Joseph was an unimportant slave

Who found he liked his master

Consequently worked much harder

Even with devotion

Potiphar could see that Joseph

Was a cut above the average

Made him leader of his household

Maximum promotion

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(Narrator & Male Ensemble)

Potiphar was cool and so fine

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(Potiphar)

But my wife would never toe the line

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(Narrator & Male Ensemble)

It's all there in chapter thirty-nine of Genesis

She was beautiful but

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(Mrs. Potiphar)

Evil

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(Narrator & Male Ensemble)

Saw a lot of men against his will

He would have to tell her that she still was his

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(Narrator)

Joseph's looks and handsome figure

Had attracted her attention

Every morning she would beckon

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(Mrs. Potiphar)

Come and lie with me, love

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(Narrator)

Joseph wanted to resist her,

Till one day she proved too eager

Joseph cried in vain

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(Joseph)

Please stop I don't believe in free love

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(Narrator)

Potiphar was counting sheckels

In his den below the bedroom

When he heard a mighty rumpus cattering above him

Suddenly he knew his riches

Couldn't buy him what he wanted

Gold would never make him happy, if she didn't love him

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(Narrator, Ensemble & Children)

Letting out a mighty roar, Potiphar burst through the door

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(Potiphar)

Joseph, I'll see you rot in jail

The things that you have done are beyond the pale

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(Narrator, Ensemble & Children)

Poor, poor Joseph, locked up in a cell

Things ain't going well, hey, locked up in a cell

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Locked up in a cell