Kismet movie - Not Since Nineveh lyrics

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When or where<br>

Could you compare<br>

High life <br>

To the life you find here?<br>

Not since Nineveh, not since Tyre,<br>

Not since Babylon turned to mire<br>

For a sin of a kind we never mind here!<br>

Where or when ever again<br>

Low life <br>

Like the life well known here?<br>

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Not since Jericho started slidin'<br>

From the din of a horn that's never blown here!<br>

Our palaces are gaudier,<br>

Our alley ways are bawdier,<br>

Our princes more autocratichere,<br>

Our beggars more distinctly aromatichere!<br>

Where could you<br>

Ever pursue<br>

Your life<br>

With the zeal we feel here?<br>

Not since Babylon read that writing,<br>

Not since Jericho heard that trumpet,<br>

Not since Nebuchadnezzar's hanging garden went to pot,<br>

Not since that village near<br>

Gomorrah got <br>

Too hot For Lot!<br>

No, not since Nineveh,<br>

Not since Ninevaheh-eh, eh-eh!<br>

Nineveh!<br>

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