Jonah invented the whale

The first man ever to sail

He went round the globe

In his best Sunday robe

His invention was destined to fail

For Noah had plans for an ark

It’s construction no walk in the park

It took a few years

Some blood sweat and tears

But finally Noah made his mark

His wife tried most every ruse

To convince him to go for a cruise

He said “I’ve been told

To fill up the hold

With gerbils and bush kangaroos”

They brought on the creatures in pairs

The rhinos and hippos downstairs

But space was so tight

Some put up a fight

Especially the grizzly bears

When the rains came the ark was a float

And Noah, on the bridge he did gloat

Saying “didn’t I say

It would happen one day”

Said his wife “I could rip out his throat,

This is not what most folk call cruising’

With gorillas and lemmings and ewes in

My cabin at night

It just isn’t right

I don’t find it very amusin’

So Noah’s wife concocted a plot

To scupper her hubbys new yacht

With her turn at the wheel

Her nerves she did steel

And crashed into Mount Ararot