| Lyrics: | "My son, ask for thyself another kingdom,
For that which I leave is to small for
thee."
Near to the East, in a part of ancient Greece,
In an ancient land called
Macedonia,
Was born a son to Philip of Macedon,
The legend his name was
Alexander.
At the age of nineteen, he became the Macedon king,
And swore to free all
of Asia Minor,
By the Aegian Sea in 334 BC,
He utterly beat the armies of
Persia.
Chorus:
Alexander the Great,
His name struck fear into hearts of
men,
Alexander the Great,
Became a legend 'mongst mortal men.
King Darius the
third, Defeated fled Persia,
The Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes,
Then Egypt fell to
the Macedon king as well,
And he founded the city called Alexandria.
By the Tigris
river, he met King Darius again,
And crushed him again in the battle of Arbela,
Entering
Babylon and Susa, treasures he found,
Took Persepolis, the capital of
Persia.
Chorus:
Alexander the Great,
His name struck fear into hearts of
men,
Alexander the Great,
Became a god amongst mortal men.
A Phrygian King had
bound a chariot yoke,
And Alexander cut the "Gordion knot",
And legend said that who
untied the knot,
He would become the master of Asia.
Helonism he spread far and
wide,
The Macedonian learned mind,
Their culture was a western way of life,
He paved
the way for Christianity.
Marching on, Marching on.
The battle weary marching
side by side,
Alexander's army line by line,
They wouldn't follow him to India,
Tired
of the combat, pain and the glory.
Chorus:
Alexander the Great,
His name struck
fear into hearts of men,
Alexander the Great,
He died of fever in Babylon |
