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Thread #15012   Message #3256265
Posted By: Charley Noble
13-Nov-11 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Noah's Ark
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Noah's Ark
Here's another version of "Noah's Ark" similar to what's above but set to the tune of "Johnny Comes Marching Home" from Souvenir Song Book, Canada Steamship Lines, circa 1920, p. 24:

Oh, Mr. Noah, he built an ark,
Huroo! Hurrah!
Oh, Mr. Noah, he built an ark,
Huroo! Hurrah!
Oh, Mr. Noah, he built an ark,
And covered it over with hickory bark,
And we'll feel gay
When Noah comes sailing home!

The animals went in two by two...etc.
The bumblebee and the kangaroo...etc.

The animals went in three by three...
The lion, the tiger, and the chimpanzee...

The animals went in four by four...
The zebra, rhinoceros and bib boar...

The animals went in five by five...
Some almost dead but all were alive...

The animals went in six by six...
(verse missing)

The animals went in seven by seven...
Said the flea to the elephants, "Who are you shovin'?"

The animals went in ten by ten...
The turkey, the goose and the bantam hen...

The animals went in twenty by twenty...
Then Noah shouted, "That's plenty! That's plenty!"

Then Mrs. Noah, she got in, too,
With Ham, Shem, Japhet, and the rest of the crew...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble