We Don't Talk About Pharaoh (Adapted From We Don't Talk About Bruno)
We Don't Talk About Pharaoh By Dave Cowen
Adapted from “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto
We don't talk about Pharaoh, no, no, no!
We don't talk about Pharaoh. But!
It was our Exodus day
It was our Exodus day
We were getting ready, to leave Egypt and slavery behind
Leave Egypt and slavery behind
Pharaoh walks in with a mischievous grin-
(Darkness!!!)
You telling this story, or am I?
(I'm sorry, ha-chaim sheli, go on)
Pharaoh says, "You’ll stay our slaves."
(But God did for us?)
Egypt’s water, He turned to blood
(Savtala, get the umbrellas!)
Next the frogs, lice, and flies came
(What joyous days... but anyways)
We don't talk about Pharaoh, no, no, no!
We don't talk about Pharaoh!
Jews grew to live in fear of Pharaoh summoning then promising
We could always hear him sort of dissembling and fibbing
Because of him they got the plague of falling hail, ch-ch-ch
You would think pestilence would be so humbling
Yet always to Moses and the Jews he kept fibbing
Grappling with prophecies he couldn't understand
Did not understand
Kind of not to blame
He gets all the flack
When God proclaimed
Pharaoh’s heart be black
Yet, he still did scheme
To keep his regime
Hey!
We don't talk about Pharaoh, no, no, no! (We don't talk about Pharaoh, no, no, no!)
We don't talk about Pharaoh (we don't talk about Pharaoh!)
He told us we could not leave
Firstborn sons: dead! (Whoa, whoa!)
Moses warned he’d grow boils!
And just like He said... (Whoa, whoa!)
God said that all light would disappear, now look as foresaid (Whoa, whoa!)
Your fate’s sealed when the prophecy is said!
God told us the land of our dreams would be promised, and someday be thine
God told us His power would grow, with outstretched arm and strong hand
Oy, Pharaoh’s on his way
God told us as we left, freedom would feel just out of reach
Enslaved all over
It’s like I hear chariots now
My peeps, God wants some faith from you
I can hear chariots now
Uh-oh Pharaoh...
Yeah, about that Pharaoh...
You really need to trust in Hashem...
Gimme that arm and hand for that Pharaoh
(Jewish people, your ruler’s here
Time for capture!)
The Red Sea he came (it was our Exodus day, it was our Exodus day)
To enslave us back (we were getting ready)
he never did change (to leave Egypt and slavery behind)
his heart remained black (to leave Egypt and slavery behind!)
Yet, all God’s plan (Pharaoh arrived with a mischievous grin-)
To part the Red Sea (Locusts!)
You telling this story, or am I?
(I'm sorry, ha-chaim sheli, go on)
God said, “Jews cross the plane.”
In doing so, God floods the terrain
The Egyptians all were slain
That’s why we talk about Pharaoh, oh!
(Every year we talk about Pharaoh?)
Yes, every year we talk about Pharaoh!
(I’m glad we brought up Pharaoh!!!)
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