Robert Wright Follow

Not Since Nineveh

(She)
Baghdad don't underestimate Baghdad
(He)
A city rich in romantic oriental lore
(She)
Baghdad you must investigate Baghdad
(He)
And learn a few of the facts you never knew before

(She)
Due South of the Garden of Eden!

Due North of the Gulf of Aden!

Where every male and maiden
Is laiden down
With the blisses of Baghdad!
This irresistible town

When or where
Could you compare High life
To the life you find here?
Not since Nineveh, not since Tyre,
Not since Babylon turned to mire

For a sin of a kind we never mind here!

Where or when

Ever again
Low life
Like the life well known here?
Not since Nineveh, not since Sidon,
Not since Jericho started slidin'
From the din of a horn that's never blown here!

Our palaces are gaudier,
Our alleyways are bawdier,
Our princes more autocratic here,
Our beggars more distinctly aromatic here!

Where could you
Ever pursue
Your life
With the zeal we feel here?

Not since Babylon read that writing,
Not since Jericho heard that trumpet,
Not since Nebuchadnezzar's hanging garden went to pot,
Not since that town near Gomorrah got
Too hot

For Lot!
Not since Nineveh,
Not since Nineveh!