Kismet Page #5

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Not since Babylon read that writing

Not since Jericho heard that trumpet

Not since Nebuchadnezzar's

Hanging garden went to pot

Aye

- Not since that village near Gomorrah got

Too hot for Lot

- No, not since Nineveh

Aye, shabash

Not since Nineveh

Ah ah

- Nineveh

Come to Baghdad, live in Baghdad

Life in Baghdad

Takes you back to Nineveh

Nineveh!

Stay in Baghdad, stay in Baghdad

Stay in Baghdad, stay in Baghdad

Stay in Baghdad, stay in Baghdad

Stay in Baghdad, stay in Baghdad

Aye

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 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

Not since

No, no, no, no

Not since Nineveh

Not since

Not since Nineveh, not since Tyre

Not since Babylon turned to mire

Not since Nineveh, not since Sidon

Not since Jericho started slidir

Baghdad is the gayest town

Since Nineveh

Nineveh!

Clear the bazaar.

Make way for the Wazir.

Clear the bazaar.

Make way for the Wazir.

Clear the bazaar.

All Highest, pardon thy servant.

I should've prevented this indignity.

- I was stepped upon.

- Oh.

Inconceivable, All Highest, but true.

You were incontrovertibly stepped upon.

But it is written that they who defile

the royal presence will die.

Great ruler, we will all die.

In your words,

there's food for much thought.

Yes, and in my thoughts,

there is much room for food.

Can't we return to the palace now

and have breakfast?

Certainly not.

Now the official year of mourning

for my father is at an end...

...I will assume the official duties.

The Caliph's schedule

has no intermission.

Then, my boy, heh, alter the schedule

with a wave of your hand.

Omar, the duties of royalty are sacred.

My late cousin, Ultimate of Aden...

...strangled to death on a peach pit

rather than interrupt an official function.

In my humble opinion,

your late cousin was a... Was a fool.

There are many things

that only royalty can understand.

Heh-heh-heh. Yes, it must be.

These roaming

roamings in the streets incognito...

...do they serve a purpose?

The Caliph is expected to make incognito

visits among his subjects regularly.

And he shall do so.

May we ask ourselves

what purpose these visits serve?

We may ask ourselves.

- And may we answer ourselves?

- We may.

Abba, to learn the ways of the people.

Babba, to stimulate our local storytellers.

Cabba, to introduce a romantic note

into the dry business of government.

Dabba...

Dabba?

Omar, she is lovely.

My boy, I've never seen that expression

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