Historians are divided on that issue, but they're almost unanimous in their belief that King Tutankhamun was their "favorite honky."

No. King Tut was pretty conclusively born in the Royal Palace in the West Nile region, what is now Louisiana. Egyptians never actually reached the American Southwest, which is to be expected considering their reliance on Chinese boats stolen from Zheng He for transatlantic voyages.

EDIT: Here's a map showing Egypt's presence in North America

This is a fact attested to by his condo made of stona.

I think I can help here chaps:

It does strike me as ironic that the song has become the standard reference work on the subject of King Tut. Many of the lines in the song are now believed to be fact. In this article I should - as a serious scholar - set the record straight:

King Tut was not "born in Arizona."

He did not live in a "condo made of stone-a."

King Tut did not "do the monkey," nor did he "move to Babylonia."

King Tut was not a honky.

He was not "buried in his jammies."

The song does, however, make a valid assertion that scholars still regard as a breakthrough: King Tut was, as explained in the song, "an Egyptian."

Source: Steve Martin

No. Well, technically correct, but Arizona wasn't know as Arizona at the time but was actually part of Spanish Mexico.

Follow up question, and I apologize if this isn't the place for it, but how did he get so funky?

In works of oral history, a certain amount of exaggeration and inexactitude are to be expected. The frequency and amplitude of these errors depend greatly on the subject (e.g., heroic stories tend to compress time but expand danger/heroism). In this case, the short oral ballad "King Tut" falls into the established category of farse or comedy in the traditional meaning.

Taking these issues into account, the best current academic consensus is that we can safely conclude that King Tutankhamun was born in or around an area that would seem to contemporary listeners (contemporary to the ballad, that is) to be like Arizona, and that he, at some point thereafter, moved to a region in the approximate vicinity of Babylonia. I've done a good deal of personal research on this issue, and my current working theory, based on the lyrical structure of the song, the lyrics themselves, and a close study of the subject, is that King Tut was born in a housing development near Barstow, CA and spent most of his life living in what is modern-day Syria.

I'd also like to follow up with... Did his Grandpa really buy a rubber?