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Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee; / To-day, you see, is Christmas Day, and so it's up to me / To give you some instruction like -- a kind of Christmas tale -- / So name your yarn, and off she goes. What, "Jonah and the Whale"?
Well, whales is sheep I've never shore; I've never been to sea, / So all them great Leviathans is mysteries to me; / But there's a tale the Bible tells I fully understand, / About the time the Patriarchs were settling on the land.