He explained why it reads like nonsense, but the explanation was really complicated and he admitted that it kind of didn't make sense. Something about them deliberately scrambling the syllables and singing them or something like that.
Also, today was cowboy day (or wild west day, or something like that) at our school, and he dressed up as a samurai and said something about how samurai influenced cowboys in the west, and how a lot of westerns, like A Fistful of Dollars for example, are remakes of or are heavily influenced by samurai films.