I just couldn’t resist this! ” Puff the Magic Dragon” was multi-layered song of the complicated 60’s. Listen to the lyrics and you will hear a fantasy story of of a little boy and a dragon. But to many people it was a metaphor for smoking pot. You can decide for yourself. To me it doesn’t matter but just makes me smile on this Saturday morning.
I saw Peter and Paul on TV yesterday ( Mary Travers died in 2009) promoting a book they have written called “Fifty Years of Music”. Listen and return or go to a place long ago and far away where the reality of war and descent and pain gave way, if only for minutes, to a whimsical song!
I would love to hear your thoughts!
TalesAlongTheWay 
This is just the sweetest song and it takes me back to a milder, comfortable time, when magic still existed in my mind! The artist captured this imp of a dragon so charmingly! smiles and thanks
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whatever it was about didn’t matter we al just smiled x
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Absolutely !
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Love the song. I remember working just Mary,(one of my all time favorite sweethearts), and Peter. Peter was alone on stage and went on and on and on why PUFF was not a song about smoking weed. Finally Mary walked onstage, pushed Peter away from the mic, and asked the audience, ‘Is it just me, or do you also find Peter appalling?’
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I love it when your memory is jogged!
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Brings me straight back to the 70s…and I remember growing up absolutely confused about ‘another meaning’…until the 80s 🙂
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