MIDI File 32K, 2 min. 43 seconds.

(MELANOPIS arranges SLAVES for entrance of HELIODORUS, who comes in from private door)

Heliodorus:

I lived in desert Eastern lands,

A mass of lions mixed with sands,

Which danced eccentric sarabands

When blown on by a blizzard—

My lodging was a ruined tomb,

A shelter from the wild simoon,

And there in ghastly, ghoulish gloom,

I learned to be a wizard.

So now I am a marvel of a Mage,

The wonders of the future I can gauge,

A forecaster of disaster like the Master Zoroaster,

I'm the mightiest magician of the age,

I'm the mightiest magician of the age.

So now he is a marvel of a Mage,

The wonders of the future he can gauge,

A forecaster of disaster like the Master Zoroaster,

He's the mightiest magician of the age,

He's the mightiest magician of the age.

And then in Egypt's heart I hid,

And dire and dreadfull deeds I did,

Shut up inside a pyramid

With beetle, snake and lizard—

At night I wandered by the Nile,

And chatted with the crocodile,

And thus in E-gyp-tian style

I learned to be a wizard.

So now I am a marvel of a Mage,

Through reading a papyrus of a page,

From the gummy little tummy of a rummy sort of mummy,

I'm the mightiest magician of the age,

I'm the mightiest magician of the age.

So now he is a marvel of a Mage,

Through reading a papyrus of a page,

From the gummy little tummy of a rummy sort of mummy,

He's the mightiest magician of the age,

He's the mightiest magician of the age.

And then I sought the Indian shore,

For forty years or maybe more,

To learn the Brahmin's mystic lore,

The process really is hard—

For twenty years without a doze,

You stand up on alternate toes,

And balance cobras on your nose—

To learn to be a wizard.

So now I am a marvel of a Mage,

I can tie myself in tangles, I'll engage,

Like a roguey aged fogey of a bogey of a Yogi,

I'm the mightiest magician of the age,

I'm the mightiest magician of the age.

So now he is a marvel of a Mage,

He can tie himself in tangles, he'll engage,

Like a roguey aged fogey of a bogey of a Yogi,

He's the mightiest magician of the age,

He's the mightiest magician of the age.

---

Page updated 23 June 2004