The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25531   Message #300328
Posted By: Jimmy C
18-Sep-00 - 09:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Who wrote and sings 'Little Moses'?
Subject: RE: Who wrote and sings 'Little Moses'?
Here is a slightly different version, probably taken from MartinRyan's above.

FINDING OF MOSES
(Zozimus?)

T'was out in Egypt's land,contagious to the Nile
There the Pharaoh's daughter went to bathe in style
And as She took her dip and she came unto the land
Just to dry her royal pelt, she ran along the strand
She tripped upon a bullrush, whereupon she saw
A smiling little babby lying in a wad of straw
So she took the babby home, to the Pharaoh on the throne
"Oh Da" said she can you give the child a home.
"Sure" said the Pharaoh, "I've often took in worse
But run down to the market place
And find the child a nurse"
When she got to the market, no skivvy couild she find
Only the little young one that left the child behind
And she letting on she was a stranger from afar
She didn't tell teh Pharaoh that she was the Babby's ma
And so Little Moses he got his mommy back
Such a coincidence
Now wasn't that the craic