Tut – Ench – Amon ( Tutankhamen )
1984 / Text: Falco / Musik: Robert Ponger
Been and seen down flight from Chicago
All aboard the African Queen
I’m on a night boat down to Cairo
Feeling like a tourist with a foreign man abroad
Tells it like he thinks it is, but I know he is fraud
There is a map tucked under his shoulder
and a cap perched on his head
If he looked any older, he might as well be dead
Dressed in army surplus, the flies around me swarm
On a mission without a purpose, I wish I’d never been born
By the light of a pale moon – Tutankhamen
Half past high noon – Tutankhamen
Put you in the picture – 1884
I’m up to date on the literature
but I have never been here before
There is a black boy on the corner trailing me behind
Stalking like a vulture money on his mind
In the shadow of the giant sphinx the archeological tale
Before the eastern sun sinks I’ll be learning braille
By the light of a pale moon – Tutankhamen
Half past high noon – Tutankhamen
They are playing our tune – Tutankhamen
Half past high noon – Tutankhamen
By the light of a, light of a pale moon – Tutankhamen
Half past high noon – Tutankhamen
By the light of a pale moon – Tutankhamen
Half past high noon – Tutankhamen