A few more days and we'll be home in glory

 Already they'll be getting out the flags

 With Memphis high _______ dormitory

 For me, I only see a lot of snags

 

 The prospect above all I find distressful

 Is having to give up the soldier's life

 If anything I'm rather too successful

 They made me hand my sword in for a wife

 

 

 For just because I've triumphed as a slaver

 Brought booty back to Egypt by the ton

 Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor

 And scheduled to do things I've never done

 

 

 And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met

 A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget

 Anonymous and undemanding

 Enchantment passing through

 My secrets and my confidence are safe enough with you

 

 

 My days out on the field are all but ended

 They'll put me out to grass which means the throne

 Bedecked and bejeweled alongside my intended

 I feel as though my heart is set in stone

 

 

 But maybe I am being far too gloomy

 Yes, maybe I'll make waves in pastures new

 Find goverment and politics come to me

 As naturally as I now talk to you

 

 

 For just because I've triumphed as a slaver

 Brought booty back to Egypt by the ton

 Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor

 And scheduled to do things I've never done

 

 

 And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met

 A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget

 Anonymous and undemanding

 Enchantment passing through

 My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you

 

 

 Why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met

 A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget

 Anonymous and undemanding

 Enchantment passing through

 My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you