Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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hills, a just man and good.
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of pitch and gopher wood.
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The children danced before him, and the Grown- ups laughed,
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behind;
They thought that there was something wrong
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with good man Noah's mind.
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And when they met him coming back for needments and supplies,
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The dancing girls and dancing men leered,
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mocking, in his eyes,
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And as he left the town once more an
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d sought the hillward track,
The boys sent shouts and whistles
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shrill behind the old man's back.
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two by two;
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and the zebra, and the gnu,
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and the stately unicorn
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That breasted up the gangway with his single,
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jaunty horn,
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The hipporgriff, the oryx,
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— all created things, in fine,
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Till the dim procession straggled from
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the far horizon line.
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squealing, barking,
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There was many a snort and squeak,
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Every sound that God gives animals because
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they cannot speak;
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and they ambled, and they ran,
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And they crawled and
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traipsed and sidled
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plan.
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and lift of hairy knees —
Oh, it was the greatest cattleboat that
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ever sailed the seas...
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There was never any showman
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ever gave such a parade
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As those beasts, that wended arkward, for the
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gaping people made;
And Noah's townsmen wished him well who
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once had wished him ill —
a circus on his solitary hill
Where he'd charge so much admission
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at the ark's red- postered door —
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Offering such a show as
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mankind never set eyes on before...
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But the sky grew dark with thunder
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throbbing like an angry drum
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And the gazers saw with terror that the thing they'd mocked had come,
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And that what had seemed a circus march
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ing slowly in parade
Was the end of all creation
and the world's last cavalcade.
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Oh, the lightning dangled nearer like a mad
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man's rat tling chain...
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As an army moves to battle came the grow
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ing sound of rain:
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And it rained and rained and
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rained and rained
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As we do understand,
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Till the earth was filled with water
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and there wasn't any land!
Verse 2
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A JUST MAN AND A GOOD ...
(YO HO, LADS, THE
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RAIN MUST FALL)
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HE BUILT THE ARK, THE GOOD BOOK SAYS,
(AND THE WATER, IT TUMBLED OVER ALL).
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