Lyr Req: Balshazzar or Belshazzar

Subject: Lyr Req: Balshazzar or Belshazzar
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 21 May 05 - 08:43 AM

In the early 1950s I used to hear a song called "Balshazzar" (not the one in http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=51818), which retold Daniel 5 (inaccurately) with an allusion to Hitler:

Now King Balshazzar took delight in
Starting wars and doing fighting.
The sons of Israel he called scamps,
And he sent them off to work in concentration camps.

CHORUS: Mene, mene, tekel, tekel, tekel,
Mene, mene, tekel upharsin.

Does anyone know the rest of it & where it came from? It had a jazz tune.

--- Joe Fineman [e-mail]

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