Very funny song, with the singer self-effacing in his awareness that he doesn't know much about the topic.
One bit of actual history in the song: "They laid down the law" is a reference to the Code of Hammurabi, which is actually a bit less than 4,000 years old, not "6 or 8 thousand years" old. Still funny in that "laid down the law" has a modern colloquial sense of being assertive, whereas Hammurabi literally laid down the law.
The album cover art looks like it's not very faithful to art from Mesopotamia, but that's what happens when you're no student of ancient cultures.
Very funny song, with the singer self-effacing in his awareness that he doesn't know much about the topic.
One bit of actual history in the song: "They laid down the law" is a reference to the Code of Hammurabi, which is actually a bit less than 4,000 years old, not "6 or 8 thousand years" old. Still funny in that "laid down the law" has a modern colloquial sense of being assertive, whereas Hammurabi literally laid down the law.
The album cover art looks like it's not very faithful to art from Mesopotamia, but that's what happens when you're no student of ancient cultures.