Editing Puff, the Magic Dragon (section)

==Parodies==
In the mid 1970s, an American Jewish band named Ruach created a parody version of the song entitled "Puff the Kosher Dragon". In the course of the song, Kosher Puff eats [[kosher]] food, has a [[bar mitzvah]], fights [[anti-Semites]], and finally marries and brings up his children as loyal members of the faith.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPwYXOA0kBY |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/aPwYXOA0kBY |archive-date = December 11, 2021 |url-status = live |title = Puff the Kosher Dragon |website = YouTube }}{{cbignore}}</ref> The Ruach song has been noted<ref>{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VuOZAJzvzOQC&dq=puff+the+kosher+dragon&pg=PA252 |title = Discovering Jewish music |first = Marsha |last = Bryan Edelman |publisher = Jewish Publication Society |year = 2003 |isbn = 9780827610279 }}</ref> as one of the first examples of a modern Jewish band using a popular secular tune.

Both tune and elements of the lyrics were adapted in the controversial parody "[[Barack the Magic Negro]]", written and recorded by [[Paul Shanklin]] for [[Rush Limbaugh]]'s radio program, after the term was first applied to then presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]] by movie and culture critic [[David Ehrenstein]].  In a ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' op-ed column of March 19, 2007, Yarrow condemned the act as "shocking and saddening in the extreme," stating that "taking a children's song and twisting it in such vulgar, mean-spirited way, is a slur to our entire country and our common agreement to move beyond racism…  It is almost unimaginable to me that Chip Saltzman, who sent the CD [as a Christmas greeting to NRC members], would seriously be considered for the top post of the Republican National Committee. Puff, himself, if asked, would certainly agree."<ref>{{Citation |url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-yarrow/my-response-to-the-mean-s_b_153808.html |title = My Response to the Mean-Spirited "Barack the Magic Negro" |newspaper = [[The Huffington Post]] |first = Peter |last = Yarrow |date = January 28, 2009 }}</ref>