Kismet Page #3
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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
on your face before.
It's sickening.
Slaves for sale.
Gathered from the four corners of the Earth.
Here we have Al Marre of Ankara.
Sold into slavery by her husband.
Come gaze at her. What am I offered?
Gaze at this physique,
this marvelous physique.
Powerful. Does lots of work.
Makes cheese. Milks goats.
Manages estates.
Fifty dinar. Fifty dinar.
Gaze at this magnificent physique.
Fifty dinar.
Gaze at this marvelous musculature.
Here she is. Fifty dinar.
- Omar, she is gone.
- Oh, my boy...
...Caliphs don't chase girls
through the streets.
- Hurry, Omar, hurry.
- Oh, my boy.
Stop that woman.
Stop her. Stop that woman.
Stop the thief. Grab that woman. Grab...
Where are they,
you sticky-fingered street girl?
Where are the oranges you stole?
Rest awhile, father of none
and son of hundreds.
- Rest till I learn if my daughter be harmed.
- It's all right. Let him go.
- Up then, toad.
- I'll have you jailed for this.
I'll have every last dinar and... It's the... I...
Come on, Father,
before he summons the police.
Marsinah, we don't run away
from the police. Not anymore.
Why not?
Because of what I hold behind my back.
- What?
- What does it sound like?
- Not copper pieces.
- Not copper pieces.
Suppose you could have anything
you ever wanted. What would you wish for?
- Breakfast.
- Oh, my dear child.
Let us have some breadth of vision.
Think big. Very big.
- The other half of the blanket.
- The other half... Oh!
We could buy
the other half of the blanket.
Good merchants,
set forth your silks and jewels...
...your finest garments
and sweetest perfumes.
- My daughter will purchase only the best.
Who is this happy mad man?
Those who are slow to serve us...
...will naturally be the last
to receive our custom.
- It's gold. Gold.
- Gold.
Put it back where you got it.
Never fear, child.
It is honestly got, honestly got.
Oh, Father, I'm afraid.
Sweet Marsinah,
our frightened days are behind us.
Try to understand. We are rich.
You know the house
out near the pomegranate grove?
You mean the one I've always dreamed
we might someday...?
- We're that rich?
- Yes. Yes, my darling.
If it is still for sale, we can buy it.
But keep some of the money for yourself.
You talk only of things for me.
What does a poet need?
What can rival the beautiful things
that he invents in his head?
I have girls.
Able bodied slaves for sale or for rent.
Gathered from the four corners
of the Earth.
Able-bodied slaves for sale or for rent.
Gathered from the four corners of the earth.
One hundred dinar.
- Well, come to think of it.
- Think of what?
Well, you should have
maids and attendants now.
Fitting for a lady in your position.
Don't you think so?
- I wouldn't know what to do with them.
- Don't worry about that.
I'll get three or four.
No sense in being short-handed.
So many beautiful things.
What shall I buy?
Baubles, bangles and beads
Marsinah, buy from me
Marsinah, buy from me
Marsinah, lovely
Marsinah, Marsinah, buy
Worms work on a Chinese terrace
Worms dream of a happy heiress
Wearing their wares
Answer their prayers
Baubles, bangles and beads
Baubles, bangles
Hear how they jing, jing-a-ling-a
Baubles, bangles, bright shiny beads
Marsinah, buy from me
Marsinah, lovely
Marsinah, Marsinah, buy
Think upon the Macedonian oyster
Having indigestion in his watery cloister
So that Marsinah could have a pearl
- A pearl
- Baubles, bangles and beads
Baubles, bangles
Hear how they jing, jing-a-ling-a
Baubles, bangles, bright shiny beads
Sparkles, spangles
My heart will sing, sing-a-ling-a
Wearing baubles, bangles
And beads
Make somebody dream
So that someday he may
Buy me a ring, ring-a-ling-a
I've heard that's where it leads
Wearing baubles
Bangles
And beads
Ahhh
Ahhh
Baubles, bangles
Hear how they jing, jing-a-ling-a
Baubles, bangles, bright shiny beads
Sparkles, spangles
My heart will sing, sing-a-ling-a
Wearing baubles, bangles and beads
I'll glitter and gleam so
Make somebody dream
So that someday he may
- Buy me a ring, ring-a-ling-a
Oooh
I've heard that's where it leads
That's where it leads
Wearing amulets, necklaces
Stars in one's hair
Wearing baubles
Bangles
And beads
Baubles, bangles and beads
Oh. Ladies.
Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
I feel that I'm wearying you.
Please rest a while.
Oh, thank you, master.
Frankly, I've never owned slaves before.
I'm a bit vague
as to what your rights are.
We have none, master.
Your word is our law.
Well, then we certainly won't have
any trouble getting along, huh?
- You are sweet, master.
Oh, yes, you are.
Master, if I werert a slave,
I'd kiss you.
Oh, my dear child, feel free
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