Walk Like an Egyptian,' a smash hit for The Bangles in the 1980s, written by Akron native Liam Sternberg. It means trying to do something you need to do despite adverse conditions to your success. Song writer Liam Sternberg who wrote this 1987 hit sung by the very attractive BANGLES, said he thought of the concept watching people try to keep their balance when walking on the rocking ferry boat. So walk like an Egyptian means still walking if a bit uneasily The early Egyptian hieroglyphics portray Egyptians with their heads facing sideways, their bodies facing forward and their legs facing sideways. These hieroglyphics are thousands of years old and the artists didn’t know how to draw or paint pictures of people correctly. Fast forward to the book To Kill a Mockingbird, written sometimes in the 1960s, when Jem and Scout, the children who were the main characters in the movie (in addition to the main character, Atticus Finch, the father of Jem and Scout), were talking, when Scout asked Jem why he was walking so strangely, and he told her he was walking like an Egyptian. He was trying to walk forward while his body was turned the way I described above. Some years ago Steve Martin, the comedian, used that phrase “walking like an Egyptian,” in one or more of his skits. Of course everyone had seen the movie or read the book and had seen Steve Martin on SNL, hence the fame of the phrase. Note: that is what happens when you ask the greatest fan of To Kill a Mockingbird and SNL a question that refers to both. All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know?
If they move too quick (oh whey oh)
They're falling down like a domino
All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got the money on a bet
Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)
They snap their teeth on your cigarette
Foreign types with the hookah pipes say
(Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh)
Walk like an Egyptian
The blonde waitresses take their trays
They spin around and they cross the floor
They've got the moves (oh whey oh)
You drop your drink, then they bring you more
All the school kids so sick of books
They like the punk and the metal band
When the buzzer rings (oh whey oh)
They're walking like an Egyptian
All the kids in the marketplace say
(Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh)
Walk like an Egyptian
Slide your feet up the street, bend your back
Shift your arm then you pull it back
Life is hard you know (oh whey oh)
So strike a pose on a Cadillac
If you wanna find all the cops
They're hanging out in the donut shop
They sing and dance (oh whey oh)
They spin the clubs, cruise down the block
All the Japanese with their yen
The party boys call the Kremlin
And the Chinese know (oh whey oh)
They walk the line like Egyptian
All the cops in the donut shop say
(Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh)
Walk like an Egyptian
Walk like an Egyptian
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