{"id":950,"date":"2016-04-19T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:24:18","slug":"mister-noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/mister-noah\/","title":{"rendered":"Mister Noah (Dave Van Ronk\/Frank Shay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mister Noah\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0udoBCR_3g0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is another amusing tidbit from <em>Dave Van Ronk: Folksinger<\/em>, and is probably the first song I learned off that record, because if you hear it once or twice, you know it, like it or not. I don&#8217;t know where Dave learned it,* but a similar four-verse version was printed in Frank Shay&#8217;s <em>My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions<\/em>, a wonderful book published in 1927 and illustrated with woodcuts by one of my favorite illustrators<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-951 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Pious-Friends.jpg?resize=211%2C283\" alt=\"My Pious Friends\" width=\"211\" height=\"283\" \/>, John Held, Jr. The concept behind the book was to preserve the songs men used to sing in saloons, which were endangered due to Prohibition &#8212; which had not ended drinking, by any means, but had ended loud singing around the piano in the local bar. 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