Peter, Paul & Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon (1963) Storytellers\DayOne Reacts
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Lovely Angela. This song has always been open to interpretation, but I see it as the lament for the loss of childhood. "A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys" ... Jackie grew up.
Yes, that’s exactly what Peter Yarrow has says it’s about. The loss of childhood innocence. No hidden drug innuendo.
You're exactly right. It's simply a lament for the innocence lost by growing up
The US had a aerial gunship dubbed Puff the Magic Dragon
For me this song and Kenny Loggins doing "Return To Pooh Corner" are two of the great and sweet songs about the innocence of youth.
My parents took me to their concert once upon a time. Until you hear 6000 people (indoors) singing the refrain, you cannot imagine what this does to a body. Their most requested song beautifully done.
Peter, Paul & Mary did a number of children's songs. I've seen them 5 times (years ago I dated a girl who was crazy about them) ... there were often tears in the audience at this song ... I think people are brought back to our own loss of innocence.
You got this straight away. That is exactly what the song is about.
There is a movie made based on this song.. I can remember listening to this song as a child
This song still brings a tear sixty some years later.
I remember this when I was young I was one when this song came out my mom had a record of this song and other songs of his
To me the song is about how some of us lose something dear when we grow up, namely our innocence and imagination. I think the tragedy that the Peter Yarrow sees is that we don't even realize it. So he takes a very somber tone when he sings about how Puff deteriorated and no longer showed up. But I like how you said the dragon would stay dormant until another child imagined him up. I think that's what Yarrow had in mind when in later years' performance of the song he ended the final chorus using the present tense, "Puff the Magic Dragon LIVES by the sea and FROLICS in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee."
OMG. You are delving into one of my favourite childhood songs. Always makes me feel sad of poor Puff.
Everyone from 8 to 80 can identify with this song. I was in grade 3 when it came out. I loved it. I still do.
I was nine years old today I'm seventy
Yes , great reaction. This is very nostalgic for those of us who remember it from our young days, when it was played a lot and was very popular. Magic song.
The innocence of youth. I was taught this song in grade school.
Little did I know at the time there was another interpretation of it.🐲
Nice! "Puff The Magic Dragon" released in 1963 remained a popular favorite ten years later when I was a child. It's Toy Story, basically, except without cowboys and spacemen. The appeal of the song to little kids back then was assisted by reruns of H.R. Pufnstuf, a Saturday Morning children's television show about a boy lost in a magic land governed by a friendly dragon, that was on its way to syndication. H.R. Pufnstuf was a Sid and Marty Krofft creation that only ran one season. But its mixture of live-action with life-sized-puppets was revolutionary and the show became a cult classic for Gen-X. The cannabis smoking angle on "Puff The Magic Dragon" came later in the seventies as a convenient source of code speak for hiding party intentions from overbearing authorities. Every child, every parent, every teacher, everybody knew the song. But it would take the cheekiness of seventies teenagers to turn it into an ode to the herb that they could hum or sing whenever they wanted to give the signal that a party was on the way, followed by a "Psst. 4:20 at the park." or whatever the details. The 1993 film Dazed and Confused captures some of those times, although the kids portrayed in it are way beyond "Puff The Magic Dragon". Peter, Paul, and Mary also played for posterity, performing "If I Had a Hammer" and "Blowin' in the Wind" at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. When you're ready for more from them also check out "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane" if you haven't already.
Yep. It's a song about kids growing up and leaving behind their imaginary world. The drug thing was debunked totally.
one of my favorites
During the Vietnam war the Airforce converted cargo planes into flying gunships equipped with artillery, miniguns, flares for ground support. They were called Puff the Magic Dragon by ground troops as it attacked at night and lit up the sky with hellfire. Probably referencing the song title as it was very popular in the 60's.
Little Jackie Paper...
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings, and sealing wax, and other fancy stuff
I always thought just a fun cute song. Then as an adult took a trip to Hawaii and on the island of Kauai their is town called Hanelei i think i spelled that right. Anyway they had a Puff the Magic Dragon gift shop. Wished now we had went in to relive childhood memories.
Great folk group. You were right on track Thanks Angela
With this song on the radio throughout my formative years, the lesson I took from it was not to take life too seriously and risk losing the playfulness needed to remain happy.
The songwriter explains it himself. Search for Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary talks Puff the Magic Dragon
Back in the day people would imagine drug references to every song that came out including 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago, Yellow Submarine or Strawberry Fields from the Beatles.
Oh my gosh her hair is beautiful 😍
This song was banned in parts of the US because it was believed to be a thinly veiled reference to marijuana. Classic harmonies.
when I went to school we sang it a lot it was in Danish, gives me so many memories sweet children's song
Peter Yarrow wanted to put a child's song on each album.
This came out when I was 10. Have always loved it 😅
When I was a child I believe it was about a make believe Dragon but I see what their saying about Marijuana but you gotta believe what the song writer is thinking and the Artist Peter Paul & Mary. Yes it's a about a Make Believe Dragon in my opinion. Makes me think about the movie " Drop Dead Fred". Nice Reaction.
A lot of the people who thought this song was about marijuana use were probably big potheads. Some of who probably think about half the songs ever written were secretly about drug use.
To me, the song is about the loss of childhood innocence
John Denver singing "Whispering Jessee", great story telling song. Hope you listen to it someday.
The part of growing up that is sad.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
I had always hoped he would add another verse where another child finds him and he's reborn...but alas.
White bread Hippie tunes. There was a division of Rock allegiances at this time. I 'm sorry to say I'm old enough to know.
You might like their "There is Love".
You are correct. Both Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow have repeatedly stated that there is no hidden meaning to the song, just the obvious loss of innocence. Personally, as someone who grew up with this song from when it was new, I never heard the alleged drug connection until I was in my 30's.
"Puff the magic "drag" and live by the "C". Jackie "paper". Easy to see why drugs were connected to the song back in the 60's drug culture.
Songs like a folk song written for children.
Geez, this is unusual.
A fairytale or a reference to smoking marijuana. "Puff", "Magic dragin", "Jackie Paper"
I do believe it’s a case of the loss of innocence, but it’s pretty easy to understand why people might think it was about the use of marijuana.
When you break it down, this is the same plotline as the Toy Story movies.
The kid's name should have been Little Joker Paper. Wouldn't it be nice if the young of today would grow up?
Growing up, you can never recapture your youth
Poor old puff he was labelled a drug man and was banned for years
A more modern allegory would be Bing Bong from the movie 'Inside Out"
You should try 500 miles from them 1962 version simple and beautiful
Who,what is "little Jackie paper?"
This song breaks my heart every time I hear it.
movie, PETES DRAGON !!!!!
I love you
And then came Calvin and Hobbs…….
Play fastway say what you will
Ignore that stupid stuff about drugs.
You kinda have to have been a 5 or 6 year old kid ....