Chorus:
I: The fanatic from Mod'in stripped Israel from Greece
II: For Jews they're all known to give reason the fleece
I: Matthias was pure and it's said he was holy
II: If virtue is this the Heeb spirit is lowly
I: And like all those Godfools he made many babies
II: And like all those Godfools their rage spreads like rabies
I: Since Yahweh throws tantrums without full compliance
II: But all we Greeks wanted was give Jews some science
I: There's no prize for science so why would Jews bother
II: Do they have some brains left for something but slaughter
I: They kill everything from their kings to their penis
II: If everything's dead why're they haunted by cleanness
I: Jews say they have books but their book is just laws
II\ Yet customs and code are ignored without cause
I: But the world of the Jews is so empty and bland
II: It's the silence they need or they get out of hand
(enter Marc Anthony)
Marc Anthony:
I have seen horror from Brutus to Germans
Yet no Roman knife chills the blood like this vermin
And Rome has seen slimefilth from Crassus to Cassius
Yet no feces stays in the nostrils like ashes
Jerusalem burns as no city of fame
Yet light never dies for a tribe without shame
In every last alley scenes worthy of Medea
Yet no Grecian poet could render Judea
No place in the world with affairs quite so lurid
As this abattoir lead by their butcher King Herod
Chorus:
I. Yet you wanted King Herod as ally and friend
II. And a hemorrhaging pain in Augustus rear end.
I. You wanted a monster confusion and peril
II. And so you inherited people who're feral
Anthony: I just wanted some money to go with my trouble
Chorus II: And some Jewish girls while you reduce them to rubble
Anthony: I just want to make Rome a place nicer than Greece
Chorus I: It already is you laid waste to the East
Anthony: When I first met Herod he seemed just like me
Chorus I: I'm nothing like you -
Chorus II: says the fly to the flea
(Enter Herod)
Anthony: He'd drink and he'd screw and he'd smoke and he'd cuss
All: Who'd think a barbarian's made just like us
Anthony: I'm leaving poor Israel for Egypt right now
Chorus I: You've left Rome and Israel your problems and how
Anthony: Anthony's gone and no payment's worth this
Chorus II: All this just because he showed up to a bris
Herod:
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOORES!
(exit Anthony)
Whores everywhere -
whores to the east and whores to my west
Whores among priests for treyf meat to get blessed
Whores among soldiers -
whores among spies
Whores among whores who're rabbis in disguise.
Whores that I kill or I marry like Mariamne
I shouldn't kill her -
just abandon like Ariadne
Whores like her mother Alexandra the kalvah
Whored daughter to me then whored me Cleopatra
Whores that rule nations like glorified cats
While Jews and the Arabs are left for the rats
Chorus:
I. You stick up for Jews and the Arabs like Moses
II. I'm sure Yahweh won't find in your virtue some poses
Herod:
I guess if he he does or he doesn't's no matter
The Jews and the Arabs are as mad as a hatter
Chorus:
I. And Herod's quick brain has a clean bill of health
II. I'm sure that his bloodlust is just for the wealth
Herod:
If I'm just so bad when it's time to kill kin
How do you explain all the kings that have been
Cleopatra has killed all her husbands and brothers
And then she colludes with Mariamne's drek mother
So I dropped everything and I dashed to her summons
I knew that I might not survive when I come in
So I had to think of a hole to put thumb in
So they had to know that by murdering me
They would kill someone loved like my Mariam-ne
So I told Uncle Joseph to watch Mariamne
And kill her right now should they 'liminate me
It's a shame for that price to deliver your hide
But they 'xpected Mariamne I knew they'd abide
But I had to offer some great bit of holdings
Not gold and/or rainment and surely not mouldings
The balsam of Jericho's what I presented
She acted as though she meant to just rent it
But I knew she wanted the deed to forever
She thinks she can hold it and that she's so clever
'lexandra reminded Cl'opatra her oath
Aristobuls' murder
- avenge for us both
Cl'opatra did call for a recess to ponder
But then did I speak to deranged Alexandr'
I said not to kill me
- her daughter's a captive
You see when it comes to my life I'm adaptive
'lexandra dejected in horror rescinded
And then we go back to our home -
all is mended
Chorus:
I. You think all is mended you dumb little Jew?
Herod:
Of course I don't think all is mended you fool
(Enter Mariamne)
I'm a king and my life is perpetu'lly threatened
You try to survive in this pit of sheer terror
I guarantee you'd make mistakes
- lethal errors
Mariamne: WEEEEEEEEEAAAAAK!!
(exit Herod)
Weak little men in the shadows at court
Who hit them and maim them and rape them for sport
Who pray and play virtue t'all powerful Yahweh
Then bribe little men robbing poor on the highway
There's only one man fit at court to be king
It's sweet Uncle Joseph who'd make Israel sing
Chorus:
I: But Joseph was sworn to assassinate you
Mariamne:
If you think he was capable that's just untrue
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