Jonah and the Whale - Author unknown

Jonah and the Whale

Author unknown

Now listen, my friends, and I’ll tell you a tale,

How old Jonah, the prophet, got caught by the whale;

The whale caught poor Jonah and, bless your dear soul,

He not only caught him but swallowed him whole.

A part of this story is awfully sad,

It is how a big city went to the bad;

 When the Lord saw those people with such wicked ways,

He said, "1 can't stand them more 'n forty more days."

He spoke to old Jonah and said, "Go and cry

To those hard-hearted people and tell them that I

Give them forty days more to get humbled down,

 And if they don't do it, I'll tear up their town,

Jonah heard the Lord speaking and he said, "No,

That's against my religion and I won't go;

Those Nineveh people an''t nothing to me,

And I'm against foreign missions, you see."

He went down to Joppa and there, in great haste,

He boarded a ship for a different place;

The Lord looked down on that ship and said He,

"Old Jonah is fixing to run off from me.

He set the wind blowing with squeaks and with squeals,

And the sea got rowdy and kicked up its heels;

Old Jonah confessed it was all for his sin;

The crew threw him out and the whale took him in.

The whale said, "Old fellow, don't you forget,

I am sent here to take you out of the wet,

You will get punished aright for your sin.

So he opened his mouth, and poor Jonah went in

On beds of green seaweed that fish tried to rest,

He said, "1 will sleep while my food I digest,"

But be got mighty restless and sorely afraid,

And he rumbled inside as the old prophet prayed.

The third day that fish rose up from his bed

 With his stomach tore up and a pain in his head;

He said, "I must get to the air mighty quick,

For this filthy backslider is making me sick."

He winked his big eyes and wiggled his tail,

And pulled for the shore to deliver his male;

He stopped near the share and looked all around,

And Vomited old Jonah right up on the ground.

Old Jonah thanked God for His mercy and grace,

And turning around to the whale made a face;

He said, "After three days I guess you have found

A good man, old fellow, is hard to keep down."

He stretched himself out with a yawn and a sigh,

And sat down in the sun for his clothing to dry;

He thought how much better his preach­ing would be,

Since from Whale Seminary he had a degree.

When he had rested and dried in the sun

 He started for Nineveh (most on the run);

He thanked his dear Father in heaven above.

For His tender mercy and wonderful love.

And though he was nearly three days late

 He preached from the time he entered the gate,

Till the whole population repented and prayed,

And by God's great mercy His ven­geance was stayed.

Now friends, when you disobey, remem­ber the tale,

When you run from God's call, look out for the whale;

Wherever God calls you is the place you should go,

And He will go with you; His Word tells us so.

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