Pamphlet of sheet music for a song entitled "The Whale Got Jonah Down". Cover page gives publisher information and a list of all nine songs in this series, which is entitled "Dan Lewis' Popular Songs of the Day". This pamphlet has been marked as containing No. 6., "The Whale Got Jonah Down", by a blue pencil marking over the appropriate number on the list. There are four printed pages and two leaves to the pamphlet. The lyrics, which are an extremely loose take on the Biblical story, are as follows:
"The whale and Jonah wrestled one day,
Jonah did his best to try and get away,
The whale was quick and Jonah was slow,
So the whale told Jonah he had to go,
Jonah he tustle and kick'd all around,
So the whale got his holt and put Jonah down.
[Chorus]
The whale got Jonah down,
The whale got Jonah down,
He did,
The whale got Jonah down,
Kept him for forty days and forty nights,
The whale got Jonah down,
The whale got Jonah down,
He did,
The whale got Jonah down,
Kept him for forty days and forty night.
[Verse 2]
While old Jonah was inside,
Ev'ry body thought that he would die,
But old Jonah liv'd so very long that,
Gradually he began to grow strong,
He ask'd the whale if he would let him up,
And the whale says no but I'll keep you down.
[Chorus]
Then brother Jonah thought he was right,
And he tried to steal out on one sabbath night,
He thought the whale was sleeping quite sound,
Jonah said to himself oh now I'm gone,
So the whale heard him and said he was wrong,
So he closed his mouth and he kept him down.
[Chorus]
Just the night before the fortieth day,
Jonah on the inside began for to pray,
He wept so hard and he sung so long,
He draw'd all the fishes from miles around,
So the whale took sick and went to dry land,
And heav'd brother Jonah on a bar of sand.
[Chorus]"
