Horrible Histories - Alexander the Great lyrics

[ALEXANDER THE GREAT] Alexander is my name Macedonia's most famous Commander history calls the Great But I prefer the Greatest A king aged only 20 When my dad a**a**inated Adviser called for calm But frankly peace is over rated Crushed rebels in Greek city states Saw thousands of them martyrs Made short labour of my neighbours And that was just for starters Alexander Full time fighter Made my whole world secure But that wasn't enough I wanted more more more And so began my master plan To conquer by invasion Started with dad's enemy The famous Persian nation Ruler Darius had far more troops An inconvenience But I won then thrashed Egypt I'm a military genius Founded Egypt's Alexandria Named for the greatest man alive I was now pharaoh and king of Persia Not bad for 25! Alexander! Victorious fighter The Greatest sounds flat How about the Living God Yeah, I'll buy that My loyal followers said that's the stuff But I, a born warrior, said it's not enough Let's take India, last man there's a fool Started wearing Persian clothes, boy, I looked so cool! But made my troops suspicious Men called me too ambitious Said they wouldn't follow me Guitar solo, Ptolemy! 'Cause of me, Ptolemy, he'll go far He'll found the dynasty that ends with Cleopatra! Then there's Hephaestion, my best friend of course! Unless you count Bucephalus but he's a horse! Why the long face my friend? Anyway together it was going grand Till Heph and Bucy died and my men took a stand I wanted to continue by my hands were tied So I sat in my tent and I cried Alexander No more a fighter Adventures had to stop 'Cause 323 BC saw me drop... dead!