Alexander The Great

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 he swore to free all of Asia Minor


By the Aegian Sea


Alexander the Great


His name struck fear into hearts of men


Became a legend 'mongst mortal men


King Darius the third


Defeated fled Persia


The Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes


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


A Phrygian King had bound a chariot yoke


And Alexander cut the 'Gordian 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 Alexander's army line by line


They wouldn't follow him to India


Tired of the combat, pain and the glory Alexander the Great


He died of fever in Babylon

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