E5       B5       A5          E5 
Egypt I saw you on the television 
E5          B5    A5            E5 
I saw your name written on a wall 
E5          B5       A5        E5 
I saw your picture in a magazine 

Egypt can I ask you to lend me your blue skies 

And your greens verging on tenderness 

I don't know you very well but I really like you 
 
CHORUS 
A5 B5                         E5 
  Egypt I'm a gonna see you soon 
A5 B5                             E5 
  I'm a gonna walk on your firm shores 
 
Egypt won't you hold me like I held a map of you 

I learnt your location from a travel brochure 

Egypt I need your sophisticated silence 
 
Repeat CHORUS 
 

A5 B5                                     E5 
  Egypt won't you hold me in you desert sounds 
A5       B5                                      E5 
In your tanks and your sand - your interesting stones