Doli and Mokhtar by mousethief


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The Song Challenge: Sheep shoots sleeping shepherd -- Cairo, Egypt -- Shepherd Mokhtar Adam Fadl was sleeping soundly beside his flock when he was shot dead. Hours later police found his killer. It was one of his sheep, police officers said Thursday. The sheep killed Fadl by kicking his gun and accidentally firing it, the officers said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The shot hit Fadl in the chest as the 20-year-old Bedouin slept in the desert near Sidi Barrani, northwest Egypt. Police in the district of Marsa Matrouh said they confiscated the locally made gun as it was not licensed. They took the sheep away, but not to prison.

Doli and Mokhtar by mousethief
(Tune: Frankie and Johnny (of course!))

Doli and Mokhtar were lovers
O Lordy, how they could love
They swore t' be true to each other
Just as true as th' stars above
He was her man but he done her wrong

Doli and Mokhtar went walking
Mokhtar had a brand new suit
Doli gave a whole year's fleece
Just to make her man look cute
He was her man but he done her wrong

Mokhtar said, I've got ta leave you
But I won't be very long
Don't you wait up for me, honey
Just chew your cud while I'm gone
He was her man but he done her wrong

Doli went down to th' pasture
Stopped to chew some grass
Says to a ram named Ism'el
Has my man Mokhtar been past?
He was her man but he done her wrong

Well, I ain't going to tell you no story
Ain't going to tell you no lie
Mokhtar went by 'bout an hour ago
With a sheep named Nellie Bly
He is your man but he's doing you wrong

Doli went home in a hurry
She didn't go there for fun
She hurried home to get ahold
Of Mokhtar's shootin' gun
He was her man but he's doing her wrong

Doli looked up from her pasture
Looked at a meadow, so high
Saw Mokhtar man, a lovin' up
That black sheep, Nellie Bly
He was her man but he done her wrong

Mokhtar saw Doli a comin'
Down the hillside he did scoot
But Doli took aim with her pistol
An' th gun went roota-toot-toot
He was her man but he done her wrong

Bring out your long black coffin
Bring out your funeral clothes
Mokhtar's gone an' cashed his checks
To th graveyard, Mokhtar goes
He was her man but he done her wrong

Drive out your rubber tired carriage
Drive out your rubber tired hack
There's twelve men going to th' graveyard
But a'leven comin' back
He was her man but he done her wrong

Th' sheriff arrested poor Doli
He took 'er ta jail don'tcha know
But she's just a dumb sheep, the judge said
So we have to let her go
Besides, he was her man and he done her wrong