what's the meaning of the song puff the majic dragon?

Answer 1

The lyrics tell a bittersweet story of the ageless dragon Puff and his playmate Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood. The story of the song takes place "by the sea" in the fantasy land of Honah Lee.
The authors of the song have repeatedly denied any intentional drug reference.

Answer 2

Believed by many people to refer to smoking marijuana (a rumor later incorporated into the film Meet the Parents), it became a hippie anthem. The authors of the song have repeatedly and vehemently denied any intentional drug reference.

Its an innocent song about a dragon Puff (which gets his name because of his magical breath) and his playmate Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood.

Answer 3

Here is what the people who created and popularized the song have said about it:


Leonard Lipton (co-writer):
["Puff" is about] loss of innocence, and having to face an adult world. It's surely not about drugs. I can tell you that at Cornell in 1959, no one smoked grass. I find the fact that people interpret it as a drug song annoying. It would be insidious to propagandize about drugs in a song for little kids.

Peter Yarrow (co-writer):

As the principal writer of the song, I can assure you it's a song about innocence lost. It's easier to interpret "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a drug song than "Puff, the Magic Dragon." This is just a funny rumor that was promulgated by Newsweek magazine [who ran a cover story about covert drug messages in pop music]. There is no basis for it. It's inane at this point and really unfortunate, because even in Hong Kong it's not played because of the allegation it's about drugs. But I assure you it's not.

When 'Puff' was written, I was too innocent to know about drugs. What kind of a meanspirited SOB would write a children's song with a covert drug message?

Straight from the horse's mouth so to speak...

Answer 4

I love this song. It's about the changes from childhood full of imagination and wonder into an adolescent where the whole world changes.

Like with my daughter. She loved POOH and had a stuffed animal that did everything with her. We dragged that raggedy thing all across the country. But I knew as soon as POOH became just another item on her floor, that her childhood had ended and she became aware of the real world. Sort of like Puff the Magic Dragon.

Answer 5

Actually it's a story about a boy who grows to be a young man and gives up the fun and wonderous things he believes to be childish. It is a comentary on the idea tha becoming and adult means giving up your imagination. It implies that we should be sadden to see the death of imagination and creativity.

Answer 6

Seriously...?

It's about the end of childhood.

(Yes, yes; I know a lot of people think it's about smoking dope, but, read the lyrics. It's a bittersweet tune about a boy who imagines Puff (the draagon) and his kingdom, but he grows up and one day never returns; Puff, so well-imagined that now he is real, is left behind in the imaginary world.)

Answer 7

its about a Gay Alien on dope
many parents are not aware of that
thank God

but it does account for all the Gay people around
Many children's programs and stories are in reality brainwashing techniques to turn kids Gay
to combat over population
this is a very old Illuminati strategy,

One of the most potent Gay turning programs are Pokemon and Sponge bob
but every body knows that by now.

they have already been banned in all the countries ,that want to have more kids

Answer 8

It does not have anything to do with weed. It's just a child like song and it sounds good.

Answer 9

some people believe that it is a reference to smoking marijuana, but in reality it is about growing up and losing your imagination. read the link for the whole story

Answer 10

Well people say it's about a boy and his dragon friend. I think it's about taking drugs.