In case anybody wants to see the rest of my Jonah "oratorio" from which I posted a couple numbers ("Jonah was a prophet (minor)" and "The Phœnician merchant tar") earlier, I'll put the rest of the lyrics in this thread. This first entry is the table of contents.
My "comic worship oratorio", Jonah was a prophet (minor), is an interpretation (musical and textual) of the Book of Jonah, one of the 12 minor prophets whose booklets comprise the Book of the Twelve in the Hebrew Scriptures. Most of these booklets are mostly prophecy per se, much of it rather nationalistic, but Jonah is a humorous short story with an anti-chauvinistic theme. It makes fun of those (like Jonah) who think God would be well advised to be less merciful. It's got to be the funniest book in the Bible, in my estimation.
The "oratorio" consists of the reading of the whole text of the Book of Jonah, with songs interspersed. Here's the order of worship (sic):
JONAH WAS A PROPHET (MINOR) Or, GILBERT & SULLIVAN MEET GOD ALMIGHTY
(Leland Bryant Ross)
CONTENTS
Jonah 1:1-2 Jonah was a prophet (minor), Austria Jonah 1:3 Run, Jonah, run, Tidings Jonah 1:4-7 On a swift Phœnician trader, Hyfrydol The Phœnician merchant tar, British Grenadiers But this was no ordinary hurricane... Almighty Moloch, strong to save, Melita What shall we do?, Du Store Gud [How Great Thou Art] Jonah 1:8-9 Praise to the living God (Yigdal Elohim Chai), Leoni (Yigdal) Jonah 1:10-13 Still the sailors were reluctant, Regent Square Jonah 1:14-16 El Shaddai, to the Card & Thompson tune but different words* Jonah 1:17 - 2:9 The Ribs and Terrors in the Whale, from Moby-Dick, Old 100th Joppa, Joppa, here I come, right back where I started from... Jonah 2:10 - 3:10 Bow, bow, ye Ninevitic masses, March of the Peers (from Iolanthe) Jonah 4:1-5 O LORD, my God, how could you be so thoughtless, Du Store Gud Jonah 4:6-11 'Neath a tree by a river a prophet of God, Tit-Willow (from The Mikado)
*El Shaddai, El Shaddai, El Elyon na Adonai, We have seen your mighty hand on the sea and on the land, El Shaddai, El Shaddai, Erkamka na Adonai, O accept our sacrifice, El Shaddai!