Not Since Nineveh

Baghdad! Don't underestimate Baghdad!
 A city rich in romantic oriental lore
 Baghdad! You must investigate Baghdad!
 And learn a few of the facts you never knew before
 Due south of the Garden of Eden
 Due north of the Gulf of Aden
 Where every male and maiden
 Is laden down... with the blisses of
 Baghdad, this irresistable 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 Ninevah, not since Sidon
 Not since Jericho started slidin'
 From the din of a horn that's never blown here!
 Our palaces are gaudier,
 Our alley ways 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
 Gomorrah got
 Too hot For Lot!
 No, not since Nineveh,
 Not since Ninevaheh-eh, eh-eh!
 Nineveh!