‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ – Peter, Paul and Mary
Isn’t “Puff the Magic Dragon” obviously about drugs? Wrong. The lyrics of Peter, Paul, and Mary’s 1963 hit, based on a poem by a friend of band member Peter Yarrow named Leonard Lipton, actually focused around a child who played with an imagined dragon named Puff until growing too old for him.
‘Puff The Magic Dragon’ Peter, Paul And Mary
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