They don’t build pyramids now like I had to do Bare head, bare feet, no hat no shoe In my day, it was block by block, pillar by pillar. All us slaves had the strength of a gorilla. Sand removed by hand, you couldn’t duck it Now there’s this newfangled fancy-handled one-man bucket. We use to work until consciousness was drifting Now there’s a machine that does the heavy lifting Too late for us to swear and cuss We were there before the pyramid stage was invented by Herodotus They don’t build pyramids like I had to do Bare head, bare feet, no hat no shoe Food was good, there was barley and wheat And to keep us muscular there was a plentiful supply of meat… …Goats and sheep mostly Platform bed of woven willow, if you were lucky there were pebbles for a pillow Those were the days, no time to get dispirited As brick by brick and stick by stick we built another pyramid Until the age of liberation, Which started here in our nation Pyramid builders used to vie To build a pyramid of dreams reaching up to touch the sky Then there came the great reversal Height was replaced by miniaturisation And the race began with a clever twist To sell a pyramid you could wear around your wrist Oh, yes. We built the sky into a bracelet lid One you can own. Your fine apple, pineapple, personalised pyramid That’s why they don’t build pyramids like we used to Bare head, bare feet, no hat no shoe
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