Now gather round people and I’ll tell you a tale,
How Jonah the prophet got caught by a whale,
Tis better than the story of Daniel or Ruth,
Although it is fishy it’s every bit true.

Now part of the story is awfully sad
Bout a greenhouse effect and a whole lot of gas
The Lord saw them people n’ their polluting ways
He couldn’t sustain it but forty more days.

So he spoke to old Jonah and said, 'Go and fly
To the capital city and tell them that I
Give 'em forty days more to get humbled down
Or the ocean will swell up and flood the whole town.

When he heard the lord a’speaking old Jonah said no,
My home’s on a hilltop and so I won’t go,
Oh, them other folks are too set in their ways,
Why should you expect me to go to their aid?

So he went down to the harbor, was there in great haste
That he boarded a ship for a different place
And The Lord looked down on that ship and said he,
'Old Jonah’s a’ fixin' to run off on me'

So he set the wind a-blowing with it’s squeaks and it’s squeals
And the sea then got rowdy and kicked up its heels
Old Jonah confessed it was all cause of him
So the crew threw him out and the whale took him in

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The whale said to Jonah, 'Old feller don't fret
I'm a’ sent here to take you in out of the wet'
So he opened his mouth and said “in you go”
And carried poor Jonah away down below

What a funny sight bud that ever was seen
When old Jonah rode off in his new submarine,
Them rigs kept on rigging, kept the people content,
For the message of warning to them was missent.

On a bed of green seaweed that whale tried to rest
And said, 'Now I'll sleep while my food will digest'
But he grew mighty restless and so afraid
For he rumbled inside as the old prophet prayed

On the third day the old fish arose from his bed
With his stomach tore up and a pain in his head
He said, 'I must get to the air mighty quick
This filthy old sinner’s a’ making me sick

So he winked his big eye and he wiggled his tail
Set out for shore for to deliver his mail
And He got near shore and looked all around
And vomited Jonah clear out on the ground

Old Jonah thanked God for his mercy and grace
And turning to the whale he then made a face
Said, “After three days and nights you have found
A good man, old sucker, you can't keep down”

The old prophet stretched up with a yawn and a sigh
Set out on the shore for his clothing to dry
He thought how much better his preaching would be
Since from a whale seminary he'd had a degree

Having rested himself and dried well in the sun
He set out a walking almost at a run
He said, 'I must hurry as fast as I can
I'm sure I don't want to be swallowed again'

When he arrived at the city he called all who were able,
To work and convert to a life su stain able,
And the windmills hummed and the glaciers were saved,
And the hand of the ocean at length it was staid.

‘fore all the ice melts let’s remember this tale,
Find a new way of living cause our last one has failed,
Don’t ever stop searching, we’re sunk if we do,
And don’t forget I’m in the same boat as you.