The Spirit of Allah
a musical about Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution
Posted by Jew from Jersey
15 July 2003
Scene20. “Seventy voluptuous virgins”
Ayatollah Khomeini and child soldiers[Khomeini stands unaccompanied. He looks slightly nervous but is distinctly smiling. Boys between the ages of 10 and 14, dressed in crude grey uniforms and marching in threes, file by singing. As they pass by ARK, he hands them large white plastic keys from a cardboard box labeled “Made in Taiwan.” Khomeini gradually looks genuinely pleased.]
[The sound of an explosion comes from offstage from the side the boys are marching to. The body of a boy sails through the air (on a string, of course) from that side of the stage to the other. The boys keep marching. Khomeini smiles, unfazed.]
- Boys: Seventy voluptuous virgins
- Seventy voluptuous virgins
- Await each one of us paradise
- ARK: Your fathers and grandfathers have vexed me sore
- I try to lead them but they’re rotten to the core
- But your minds are clean and you hearts are pure
- What easy entrance you’ll have at heaven’s golden door
- Boys: How empty was my life without Islam
- And prospects don’t look too good now in Iran
- Now I’m going to meet with God in paradise
- ARK: Praise God, how happy are those
- Who are killed before their evil grows
- You’ll die free of misery and of woes
- And never taste the pain that my heart knows
- Boys: What a joy to fight alongside friends
- And to die alongside friends
- On the road to paradise.