BOW, BOW, YE NINEVITIC MASSES

(Leland Bryant Ross)

King of Nineveh — (chorus of Ninevites sings indented portions)
Bow, bow, ye Ninevitic masses,
Bow, bow, in sackcloth, bow in ashes,
Bow, ye camels, bow, ye asses:

Tan-tan-ta-ra, tzing-boom!

Fast, fast, ye Ninevitic masses,
Fast, fast in sackcloth, fast in ashes,
Fast, ye camels, fast, ye asses:

Tan-tan-ta-ra, tzing-boom tzing-boom!

Tan-tan-ta-ra, tzing-boom tzing-boom!

Tan-tan-ta-ra, tzing-boom tzing-boom!

Save us from certain mass destruction!
Save earth from sudden liposuction!
Save, save the camels! Save, save the asses!

Tan-ta-ra, ta ta ta ta ta ta, Tan-ta-ra, ta ta ta ta ta ta,

Tan-ta-ra, ta ta ta ta ta ta, Tan-ta-ra, ta ta ta ta ta ta,

Tan-ta-ra, ta ta, Tan-ta-ra ta ta, Tan-ta-ra ta ta, Tan-ta-ra, ta ta,

Tan-ta-ra, ta, tzing-boom, tzing-boom!

Bow, ye Ninevitic masses,
Fast in sackcloth, fast in ashes,
Bow, ye Ninevitic masses!
Save the camels! Save the asses!

Tan-tan-ta-ra, tan-tan-ta-ra, tan-ta-ra, tan-ta-ra,

Tan-ta-ra, tan-ta-ra, ra, ra, ra, ra, ra! Tan-ta-ra! Tan-ta-ra!

          (Tzing-boom!)

Part (following Jonah 3;10) of my "comic worship oratorio" Jonah was a prophet (minor), 1997, © Liland Brajant Ros'

The tune is an abbreviation of March of the Peers by Arthur S. Sullivan, from Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe. Sorry, don't have a MIDI.

LBR