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COMMENTS:
Voted : Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary
I have heard from many sources that this song is not about drugs. Maybe they don’t count marijuana as a real drug. This technicality could be how they reasoned themselves out of admitting it. But I think it was at least intentionally made to at least SEEM like it was about weed.
This is what I think the song says:
#1 Puff (ON) the magic dragon.
#2 Dragon = draggin'.
#2 Johnny Paper. What a giveaway. A johnny is a joint, and it's rolled up in paper, a johnny paper, to be exact. People have always called it that.
#3 A land called Honah Lee. This actually refers to Hanalei, a Hawaiian city on the island of Kauai. Hanalei has long been known as a major marijuana supplier.
#4 The little boy went on to other things (as weed smokers were thought to do at the time this was written).
#5 Autumn mists? There is no autumn in Hanalei. In a real, deciduous autumn, the mists are laced with smoke from burning leaves or fireplaces. I believe he is talking about “magic smoke”. Whoopee!
#6 The entire song is about going on “trips” with his magic friend.
The poem, Puff the Magic Dragon, was written by a 19 year-old college student at Cornell University in New York in 1959. Need I say more? He adopted it from a poem by Ogden Nash, which was about a cowardly dragon and Ogden Nash’s poem has no weed-related references. I believe the boy who wrote Puff the Magic Dragon knew exactly what he was writing and knew exactly how his words would be interpreted by the aware.
The boy who wrote Puff the Magic Dragon says it was not about marijuana:
He also says these two things:
#1 What kind of mean-spirited SOB would write a children's song with a covert drug message?
#2 I can tell you that in 1959 in Cornell, no one smoked grass.
#3 When Puff was written, I was too innocent to know about drugs.
These are the kind of diversionary and contradictory statements that tag a person as insincere, IMO.
· If he was too innocent to know that people used marijuana (he could he not know), how did he know the other students were not doing it?
· Puff the Magic Dragon was never a child’s song.
All this is, of course, is IMO.
My question is why the coyness about it's obvious marijuana references. The author is still refuting it to this date. I say, "Me thinks thou dost protest too much."
^ INTERESTING, forgetmenot.
by mojo on Wed Sep 12, 07 5:26am
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IMO - Idiopathic Massive Osteolysis
I still remember Captain Kangaroo's version of PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON. I'm sure it's a drug song, but for me it will always be a song about poor old Puff. The Captain's version had a "But Wait!" Poor old Puff is crying in his cave and another child wonders into his cave.
Holy sh*t! After reading my response I've come to the conclusion that PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON is about child molestation. Go figure!
Voted : White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane.
There's one off the top of my head...
or should I say Off with her head.
But I just KNOW that "The Candy Man" by Sammy Davis, Jr. is about drugs! The leprachaun I saw when I was tripping to the song told me it is!
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