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Home Up Happy Families Greeks Trojans The Fall of Troy Helen

 

1 O they're one big happy fam'ly in the sky,

Except on days they may not all see eye to eye.

Paris gave them his decision, Aphrodite's his Miss Heaven,

And so He gets Helen of Troy.

Some God's the puppet master,

Some Goddess pulls the strings,

Mortals are cast around like action-doll play things. + Reprise

  

2 Zeus's wife, the Goddess Hera, heav'nly queen,

And Aphrodite's stepmama, was very keen.

In the contest though with Hera and Athena (Miss Minerva!)

Venus leaves them looking green.

  

   

 

 

3 Helen's Ma was Leda, wife of Sparta's throne,

Whom naughty Zeus seduced by conjuring a swan.

Thus the gods bestowed their favours on the Trojans and their neighbours,

Human pawns (as gods do battle, human pawns) their battle zone.

Some God's ..... + Reprise