Joseph’s Dream

Lyrics

Joseph had a dream when he was only seventeen He dreamt his older brothers would someday be his subjects He told this to his father and his brothers they got mad and tried to kill him His father just took note, but his brothers, they got mad and tried to kill him Joseph was a young man with 11 older brothers He was given by his parents a coat of many colors And this made his brothers angry So they sold him into slavery down in Egypt They tried but couldn't kill him So they sold him to the service of the Wazir Now, the Wazir's wife, when Joseph was a slave to her Was heavily attracted she bragged to all her ladies That she'd have this gorgeous slave to be her lover She tried but then she failed She had it all set up but Joseph, he refused to go along with it Her husband he was wise to her when she had Joseph busted So he did not have him put to death the way it was expected He just threw him in the dungeon for 2 years With a butler and a baker Who were having crazy dreams that Joseph had the knowledge to interpret When the dreams came true, the Pharaoh was advised of this Had Joseph sent to him to hear the dream of seven cows And Joseph gave such good advice, the Pharaoh released him from his slavery And not only that, he also made Joseph the new Wazir There was a famine up in Canaan, Joseph's father sent his brothers Down to Egypt to buy corn, but they were thrown in jail as spies In three days he had released them to return and come again and bring their father Who forgave them, as they gathered 'round just to live regular old lives right there with Joseph Just the way that he had dreamed it way back when he was just a boy of 17