| Narrator
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| Joseph was taken to Egypt in chains and sold
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| Where he was bought by a captain named Potiphar
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| Narrator & MM Potiphar had very few cares
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| He was one of Egypt’s millionaires
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| Having made a fortune buying shares in Potiphar
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| Pyramids
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| Narrator & MM Potiphar had made a huge pile
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| Owned a large percentage of the Nile
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| Potiphar
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| Meant that I could really live in style
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| Narrator & MM And he did
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| Narrator
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| Joseph was an unimportant
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| Slave who found he liked his master
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| Consequently worked much harder
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| Even with devotion
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| Poitphar could see that Joseph
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| Was a cut above the average
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| Made him leader of his household
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| Maximum promotion
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| Narrator & MM Potiphar was cool and so fine
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| Potiphar
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| But my wife would never toe the line
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| Narrator & MM It’s all there in chapter thirty-nine Of Genesis
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| She was beautiful but
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| Mrs. Potiphar
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| Evil
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| Narrator & MM Saw a lot of men against his will
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| He would have to tell her that she still
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| Was his
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| Narrator
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| Joseph’s looks and handsome figure
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| Had attracted her attention
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| Every morning she would beckon
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| Mrs. Potiphar
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| Come and lie with me, love
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| Narrator
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| Joseph wanted to resist her
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| 'Till one day she proved too eager
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| Joseph cried in vain
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| Joseph
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| Please stop
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| I don’t believe in free love
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| Narrator
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| Potiphar was counting sheckels
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| In his den below the bedroom
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| When he heard a mighty rumpus
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| Clattering above him
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| Suddenly he knew his riches
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| Couldn’t buy him what he wanted
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| Gold would never make him happy
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| If she didn’t love him
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| Narrator, Ensemble & Children
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| Letting out a mighty roar
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| Potiphar burst through the door
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| Potiphar
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| Joseph, I’ll see you rot in jail
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| The things you have done are beyond the pale
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| Narrator, Ensemble & Children
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| Poor, poor Joseph, locked up in a cell
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| Things ain’t going well, hey, locked up in a cell
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| Poor, poor Joseph, locked up in a cell
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| Things ain’t going well, hey, locked up in a cell |