A few more days and we´ll be home in glory
Already they´ll be getting out the flags
With Memphis high in mode adulatory
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