A few more days and we'll be home in glory
  Already they'll be getting out the flags
  With Memphis high __ dormitory
  For me, I only see a lot of snags
  
  The prospect above all I find distressful
  Is having to give up the soldier's life
  If anything I'm rather too successful
  They made me hand my sword in for a wife
  
  For just because I've triumphed as a slaver
  Brought booty back to Egypt by the ton
  Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor
  And scheduled to do things I've never done
  
  And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met
  A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget
  Anonymous and undemanding
  Enchantment passing through
  My secrets and my confidence are safe enough with you
  
  My days out on the field are all but ended
  They'll put me out to grass which means the throne
  Bedecked and bejeweled alongside my intended
  I feel as though my heart is set in stone
  
  But maybe I am being far too gloomy
  Yes, maybe I'll make waves in pastures new
  Find goverment and politics come to me
  As naturally as I now talk to you
  
  For just because I've triumphed as a slaver
  Brought booty back to Egypt by the ton
  Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor
  And scheduled to do things I've never done
  
  And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met
  A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget
  Anonymous and undemanding
  Enchantment passing through
  My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you
  
  Why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met
  A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget
  Anonymous and undemanding
  Enchantment passing through
  My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you