{"id":6738,"date":"2026-10-19T08:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=6738"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:26:05","slug":"noahs-ark-chantey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=6738","title":{"rendered":"Noah’s Ark Chantey"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an actual work song, or chantey; Collected by Cecil Sharp: 3 June,1914 from Capt. Hole, of Watchet, Somerset England, and cited as a “halyard chantey”.\u00a0 Stan Hugill stated that it was a “long haul” or “halyard” chantey, but since the I have seen it cited as having been utilized at either the capstan or pumps; Let’s chalk it up to being versatile utility.\u00a0 There are several variations of this song in print on the subject but generally they all revolve around the same idea.\u00a0 Not the same as the “Noah’s Ark Song”.\u00a0 The chantey is also called “A Long Time Ago<\/strong>” and is set by the singer in Liverpool or San Francisco or Portsmouth or wherever you wish it.\u00a0 A standard first set song sung by Rick Spencer in our performances.<\/p>\n

Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n

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A long time and a very long time,
\nWay, hay, o-hyo!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nA long time and a very long time,
\nA long time ago<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Three ships they came into Liverpool Bay
\nThree ships they came into Liverpool Bay<\/p>\n

One of them ships was the old Noah\u2019s ark
\nAll covered all o\u2019er wi\u2019 hickory bark<\/p>\n

The animals came in two by two
\n‘Till the old ark looked just like a zoo<\/p>\n

The animals came in three by three
\nThe elephant was riding on the back of the flea<\/p>\n

The bull and the cow they started a row
\nNoah stood up and said, “That’s enough, now!”<\/p>\n

Then Noah said with a crack of his whip
\n\u201cStop all this row or I\u2019ll scuttle the ship\u201d<\/p>\n

But the bull struck his horn through the side of the ark
\nAnd the little black dog began to bark<\/p>\n

So Noah stuck the dog’s nose in the hole
\nSince then, all dogs\u2019 noses have been wet and cold<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long, long time and a very long time
\nA long, long time and a very long time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an actual work song, or chantey; Collected by Cecil Sharp: 3 June,1914 from Capt. Hole, of Watchet, Somerset England, and cited as a “halyard chantey”.\u00a0 Stan Hugill stated that it was a “long haul” or “halyard” chantey, but since the I have seen it cited as having been utilized at either the capstan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6741,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6738\/revisions\/6741"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}