They say that the Nile gave us Egypt,
Try planting
crops on the beach, and you can believe it.
The yearly flood left rich dirt called silt,
So they planted in the silt and the farms got built.
Around the Nile, they got together to feel alright like Bob Marley,
Planting cotton, wheat and barley.
Writing on papyrus in hieroglyphics,
That's the Egyptian alphabet you can get with.
"Am I a dimwit? I can't believe it, I can't read it,
Looks like symbols to me," naw, it's simple you see:
The Rosetta stone let us know how to decipher the code,
So now we study the old words that were written in stone.
They believed in an afterlife,
They'd get strips of cloth and they'd wrap you tight.
Yep,
pharaohs would get
mummified,
And buried with food and clothes for the great unknown, whoa.
Walk-walk like an Egyptian,
Walk-walk like an Egyptian.
We built the pyramids, we built the Sphinx,
And then we wrote it down in hieroglyphics.
Osiris:
I'm Osiris, lord of the dead,
Don't mess with me, boy, I'll put a sword to your head.
We fight invaders effortlessly,
'Cause we're insulated by the desert and seas.
Upper and Lower, we're divided up,
Yep, until Pharaoh Menes united us.
In 3100 BC, he said, I want my son to be pharaoh,
After me, I'll start a dynasty.
King Tut, died before he got old,
But King Tut got a mask made of gold.
So pharaohs sit back, sip tea, and get rich,
While workers break their backs to build the
pyramids.
Fifty stories tall, that's incredible,
They used ramps to move stones, so they're handicap accessible?
If you were pharaoh whose last breath goes,
You got buried in a pyramid, like it's your gravestone.
Walk-walk like an Egyptian,
Walk-walk like an Egyptian.
We built the pyramids, we built the Sphinx,
And then we wrote it down in hieroglyphics.