Misc Television – Horrible Histories - Alexander The Great (Guitar)

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Alexander is my name, Macedonia's most famous

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Commander, history calls the great by I prefer the greatest.

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A king aged only 20 when my dad assinated

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Advisors called for calm but frankly peace is overrated.

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Crushed rebels in greek city states, saw thousands of the matyrs

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Made short labour of my neighbours and that was just for starters.

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Alexander,

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Full time fighter

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Let my whole world secure but that wasnt enough,

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I wanted more, more , more.

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And so began my master plan to conquer by invasion

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Started with dad's enemy the famous Persian nation

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Ruler Darius had far more troops, an inconvenience

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But I won then thrashed Egypt I'm a military genius.

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Founded Egypt's Alexandria, named for the greatest man alive.

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I was now pharaoh and king of Persia, not bad for 25!

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Alexander,

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Victorius fighter

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The Greatest sounds flat, how about the 'Living God'?

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Yeah, I'll buy that.

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My loyal followers said that's the stuff but

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I, a born warrior, said it's not enough

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Let's take India, last man there's a fool

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Started wearing Persian clothes, boy, I looked so cool

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But made my troops suspicious, men called me too ambitious

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Said they wouldn't follow me - guitar solo, Ptolemy!

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'Cos of me, Ptolemy, he'll go far

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He'll found the dynasty that ends with Cleopatra.

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Then there's Hephaestion, my best friend of course

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Unless you count Bucephalus but he's a horse.

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*Why the long face my friend?*

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Anyway together it was going grand

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Till Heph and Bucy died and my men took a stand.

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I wanted to continue by my hands were tied

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So I sat in my tent and I cried.

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Oh------------

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Alexander,

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No more fighting

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Adventures had to stop 'Cos 323 BC

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saw me drop... dead.