"Take Me Back to Cairo"
Feb. 8th, 2009 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerOmg - nothing is ever lost (thank you, Mr. Stoppard): in a recent post I mentioned the rather goofy song that was in one of my old public radio specials. I thought it was long gone with the LP it was on. . . . but no!! The immortal Take Me Back to Cairo lives on - on YouTube! Not only that, but people have done research on it and on the artist, Karim Shukry!
All hail the power of the internet.
Here is the original context from my radio special, Festival of Liberation: the Passover Story in World Music (I suppose I should have waited til April, but you know I'll forget):
When the Children of Israel were deep in the wilderness . . . then Pharaoh on his throne thought, What's happened to all my slaves? Where are they? What have I done? So he summoned his chariots and horsemen, and went after them--and an army travels much faster than thousands of people on foot.
* * * MUSIC: "Moses, Moses, don't let King Pharaoh overtake you" from Georgia Sea Islands [LJ: IT'S TRACK #21 on this page! And check out TK. 25 while you're in there.]
It didn't take long before the children of Israel saw Pharaoh's army coming, far away over the desert. And the people turned on Moses, saying, "There were no graves in Egypt, you had to bring us out here to die?? Let's go back: the Egyptians may have worked us hard, but at least no one was coming after us with spears!"
***MUSIC: "TAKE ME BACK TO CAIRO "(Egyptian Tourist Board LP) to end
then ROLL MGRDICHIAN 4 UNDER THIS UNTIL we get to FRANKE song
And here is the video in all its glory:
(Actually, the best part of it, if you go to YouTube, is the heartfelt messages left there for Shakry's son, who made the video.)
All hail the power of the internet.
Here is the original context from my radio special, Festival of Liberation: the Passover Story in World Music (I suppose I should have waited til April, but you know I'll forget):
When the Children of Israel were deep in the wilderness . . . then Pharaoh on his throne thought, What's happened to all my slaves? Where are they? What have I done? So he summoned his chariots and horsemen, and went after them--and an army travels much faster than thousands of people on foot.
* * * MUSIC: "Moses, Moses, don't let King Pharaoh overtake you" from Georgia Sea Islands [LJ: IT'S TRACK #21 on this page! And check out TK. 25 while you're in there.]
It didn't take long before the children of Israel saw Pharaoh's army coming, far away over the desert. And the people turned on Moses, saying, "There were no graves in Egypt, you had to bring us out here to die?? Let's go back: the Egyptians may have worked us hard, but at least no one was coming after us with spears!"
***MUSIC: "TAKE ME BACK TO CAIRO "(Egyptian Tourist Board LP) to end
then ROLL MGRDICHIAN 4 UNDER THIS UNTIL we get to FRANKE song
And here is the video in all its glory:
(Actually, the best part of it, if you go to YouTube, is the heartfelt messages left there for Shakry's son, who made the video.)