We’ve Got Some News

WISEMAN #1
We’ve got some news, good King Darius.
We fear your position is precarious.
There are some people here in Babylon
who won’t give you your due.
They’d rather bow to other men.

KING DARIUS
Can this be so?

WISEMAN #2
‘Tis true!

KING DARIUS
Oh, dear.

WISEMAN #1
We’ve brought a solution of our own design.
If you’ll just sight this paper on the dotted line.
It’s an edict stating most concisely what we’re all to do.
We must bow our heads or bend our knees before no one but you.

KING DARIUS
I see. Just one more time, now,
let’s see if I’ve got this straight.
A law to prove once and for all that I am great.
If I’m the king no one must doubt my full supremacy.
So, from this day forth my citizens will pray to only … me.
Yes! But what if they don’t?

WISEMAN #1
If they don’t obey, any citizen
will be thrown into the lion’s den.

KING DARIUS
Oh! Yes. Well, I guess that would do it! Alright, then. Good work, men. Ta-ta!

NARRATOR
So the law was passed, the deed was done.
Daniel’s troubles had just begun.

Music and Lyrics by Phil Vischer