A history of Iraq (based on an article in the Wikipedia) (song)

Way back in the old days
Before Christ was born,
In three thousand twenty BC,
In Mesopotamia
Old cultures thrived,
The cradle of our history.

Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylonia, Assyria,
Chaldea, we love ya, unconditionally,
For your math, philosophy,
And writing and science and law.

Many years later,
Islam did spread
To what is now known as Iraq.
Ali ruled, then later Hussein,
Then the Battle of Karbala.

Baghdad, Baghdad,
Head of Abbasid, Cali.
Then came the Mongols,
Then Ottoman Turks who allied
With the Kaiser's Germany.
Then Britain drove out
The Ottoman Empire.

Iraq is home
To the Garden of Eden,
Garden of Eden,
Garden of Eden.

Click here for melody and lyrics.

main source
Wikipedia. Iraq. June 27, 2006.

post: june 27, 2006, 2:59 pm ET
update: july 21, 2006, 7:23 pm ET