Flannel Graph Oh Joe Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Running through the forest on the mossy, dirty ground
Hearing all the choruses of animal sounds
They sold me
They sold me
To the natives and the gypsies
They told me
They told me
That I would not be found

[Verse 2]
Doing all the duties for a man I hardly know
Man, his wife's a beauty with a natural glow
Her flirting
Her flirting
She held my coat so tightly
She cursed me
She cursed me
When I told her no

Oh Joe
Watch it all unfold
Oh Joe
You're not alone

[Verse 3]
Locked up in a prison for some wayward woman's lies
When I met a couple of King Pharaoh's guys
They told me
They told me
The dreams they had so worried
I said one would live
But the other would die
I was forgotten in my chains
But there was something greater running through my veins

Master of the nation had some troubling dreams
Nobody could tell him what the two of them would mean
They called me
They called me
I said it was not in me
But only
The Holy One would know

Oh Joe
Pulled from jail below
Tell the King my words
Joe, be bold

For seven years, we will be blessed
But seven years will lead to hunger
Spreading east to west
And if you want to save the kingdom
Find a man to lead it
With wisdom

And the King said
Oh Joe
I may be on the throne
But you are in command
Lead our land
For you are that man