Video Not Since Nineveh de Alekahap Opoanh Alexander Borodin 2025 Lyrics Lyrics

Alekahap Opoanh Alexander Borodin - Not Since Nineveh Lyrics

[LALUME]
Baghdad!
Don't underestimate Baghdad!

[WAZIR]
A city rich in romantic oriental lore!

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Aye!

[LALUME]
Baghdad!
You must investigate Baghdad!

[WAZIR]
And learn a few of the facts
You never knew before

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Aye!

[LALUME]
Due south of the Garden of Eden
Due north of the Gulf of Aden
Where ev'ry male and maiden
Is laden down
With the blisses of Baghdad
This irresistible town!
When or where
Could you compare high life
To the life you find herе?
Not since Nineveh, not sincе Tyre
Not since Babylon turned to mire
For a sin of a kind we never mind here!

When or where
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 village near Gomorah
Got too hot for Lot!
No, not since Nineveh
Not since Nineveh
Nineveh!

[TOWNSPEOPLE]
Come to Baghdad
Live in Baghdad
Life in Baghdad takes you back to
Nineveh!

[LALUME & TOWNSPEOPLE]
Nineveh!