However, I have never seen that page of the pamphlet so I don’t know if it’s the song you’re seeking.

As an example, listen to the song “Who Built the Ark?” recorded by “Who Built the Ark?” teaches an important lesson, stressing Noah’s hard work and his steadfast obedience to God despite being considered a fool by his neighbors. Please read our Walking on the ark is treacherous, and must be handled with care:Other spirituals about Noah take a more general approach, recounting the story in some detail.

Well, my God sent Noah ten angels from the throne of glory, Down in the poor, Said to work among the fields of the poor.
The Summer 1967 pamphlet had one called “Old Mr. Noah” which just could be the song you’re asking about. Good luck!This blog does not represent official Library of Congress communications.Links to external Internet sites on Library of Congress Web pages do not constitute the Library's endorsement of the content of their Web sites or of their policies or products. Design drawing for stained glass window showing events from Genesis: Noah, rainbow, Adam, Eve, snake. It’s from 2005, when the Bible stories provided the basis for both songs and sermons, and sometimes fieldworkers recorded long improvised narratives that could be considered part of either genre. so Noah got busy on a do it yourself project and when the weatherman said it would be clear and dry Noah got drought flu right away he new that a storm would brew and was due on tomorrow night….as a child in choir we sand a song about Noah that startedDOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND THIS SONG WITH MUSIC? Billed as “For their third song at the historic concert, the Gates launched into “Noah,” a spiritual which exemplifies their signature sound. They underpin that sound with what the group’s leader Willie Johnson termed “vocal percussion” before launching into the main lyrics, creating a wonderfully complex vocal sound. Haskins’s song may be difficult to understand, so we follow the audio with a transcription of the lyrics.This virtuoso performance of what appears to be an original piece is made all the more poignant by the fact that it is, as far as we know, the only recording Haskins ever made. The BBC used to have a program called “Singing Together” which put out quarterly song pamphlets. On December 20, 1940, the Golden Gate Quartet performed one such song in the very building where I’m writing these words. The Library of Congress only has scattered issues of this publication, and does not have the Summer 1967 issue, but another library, especially one in Britain, might have it. Full catalog information is at the link.The couplet “God showed Noah by the rainbow sign/ No more water but fire next time” is an interesting summary of, and commentary on, [We have one more example of this couplet in a song about Noah, at the 43:00 minute mark of the webcast below. ?I’ve seen others asking for that song as well in various song forums. As an example, listen to a track-lining song recorded by Herbert Halpert from railroad worker Henry Hankins in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1939. It concludes with the moral:There are other lessons to be learned from the Noah story, too. Noah and his family occupy the upper pane, with the ark and the rainbow at the top. In fact, the couplet transcends song genres: while it seems to have originated in spirituals like “Home on the Rock,” it also appears in secular songs, and even in work songs. Well, here is one more distant dot: the stained glass designs for the Old Mariners Church in Detroit — illustrations in this blog — are for the house of worship that saw the memorial service for the 29 dead from the loss of the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975. One of the songs they recorded, “Home on the Rock,” ended with the lines:Sadly, the Lomaxes ran out of disc space before this line was sung, as you can It’s not the only time this couplet has been collected by the Library of Congress fieldworkers. “The good lord said to Noah I got a thing or to to say about the building of a boat and a little bit of dough that you got stashed away that your saving for a rainy day you better hear the things i say or the deodorant in the bathroom cabinet wont even keep you dry I want you to get two of every creature in the zoo the birds and the bees and the crimmy creepy crawly things. His article is as beautiful as the song!Thanks for this and the next blog on Noah — it is great fun to see the way you have connected many dots in your narrative. As Gordon Lightfoot sang, this was the hall where the bell rang 29 times on November 24, 1975, to mourn the loss.I know most of the words to a song and am looking for the entire song. Full catalog information is at the link.Since Noah is, after all, a Bible character, it’s only natural that most of the songs about him are spirituals expressing religion and morality. I recall that Francis Lee Utley specialized in folklore about Noah, including the dove.

That evening the “Gates,” as they were known, gave a concert with Josh White in the Library of Congress’s historic Coolidge Auditorium.