TCP: The Tragedy of Mariamne - Beginning

 Chorus: 

I: The fanatic from Mod'in stripped Israel from Greece

II: Cuz Jews they're all known to give reason the fleece

I: Matthias was pure and it's said he was holy

II: If virtue this is then 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: And 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 can chill blood like this vermin

 I have seen slime 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 with no shame

In every last alley scenes worthy of Medea

Yet no Grecian poet could render Judea

There's 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 these 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 so like me

Chorus I: I'm nothing like you

Chorus II: Says the fly to the flea

Anthony: 

He drank and he fucked and he'd smoke and he'd cuss

All:

Who'd think a barbarian is made just like us?