The Spirit of Allah

a musical about Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution

Posted by Jew from Jersey
15 July 2003

Scene16. “Mesopotamia rules!”

Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ministers and generals

[Stage is darkened to conceal Iranian imagery. It is otherwise grey. Saddam, dressed as the Mikado, dances and sings in front of his ministers and generals, who act as chorus.]

• SH: I’ve worked hard all my life to build Iraq a good defense
• Now it’s time to party at someone else’s expense
• If I step on your foot, will you turn the other cheek?
• There’s nothing that I love so much as a neighbor who is weak!

• Chorus: There’s nothing that he loves so much as a neighbor who is weak.

• Ash lonak, habibi, Mesopotamia rules!
• Khomeini and Carter are a couple of fools
• All I see are moustaches, from the gulf to the sea
• One Arab superpower, one dictator for everybody.

• SH: There was a time when Iran had American backing
• Now they’ve still got the warplanes, but it’s the pilots they’re lacking
• Who’s gonna stop me now? Mullahs and dirty little boys?
• It’s time for the S-man to make some noise!

• Chorus: It’s time for our country to make a loud noise.

• Ash lonak, habibi, etc.

• SH: Let’s avenge the fall of Babylon at the hands of the Meads
• And Karbala, and other Shi’ite misdeeds
• They aren’t really even Muslims, they’re some kind of mutants
• Let’s cleanse the Arab waterways from all Persian pollutants!

• Chorus: Let’s cleanse the Arab waterways from all Persian pollutants.

• Ash lonak, habibi, etc.

[dancing girls dressed as cheerleaders with headscarves, pompoms and balloons flood the stage. The music gets funkier and the dancing gets wilder.]

• Ash lonak, habibi, etc.

[repeat and fade out.]