Does anyone remember the song Puff the Magic Dragon? What do you think it was really about?
2007-05-08 03:07:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Hi Susan,
You will get many answers to this song. I even sang it on stage and for my children as well. I'm a child of the late sixties and seventies, don't you know!
Some will say it is pot, others that it was heroin and who knows what others might say. But I say it is a sweet story of a little boy and his invisible dragon.
One day, this little boy with a grand imagination began to grow up and stopped believing in ol' Puff and he finally stopped coming to the water where Puff lived and where they had built many a dam because he stopped believing.
I choose to believe that is the meaning of the song, we all too soon grow up and forget the 'friends' we leave behind, and our imagination, our trust and our belief in things magical.
King
2007-05-08 03:36:33 · answer #1 · answered by King de Puttenham 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think I met 'old ' Poof on queens day in Amsterdam last week
Someone asked him the same question years ago.
So he started wondering and wandering and ended up
in Holland and discovered Amsterdam.
City of Sin where sometimes everything goes, so after puffing away in the coffeeshops for a while he discovered the
openly gay area in Amsterdam.
He still doesn't know what he's all about he told me, but he enjoyed the lifestyle so he stayed.
I must admit that his well oiled green scales looked very fetching with the bottomless tight black leather pants he was
wearing. This Dragon's latest flame who looked like the indian from the YMCA song, interrupted our conversation.
( gay men can be very possesive, jealous,and suspicious )
And while giving me the ' Hands off my man look' , Joked
that his Old Puff was very HOT!!, while at the same time indulging in some very indecent fondling.
Puff just looked at me and said slightly embarrassed ' Well
you know what they're like . It happens all the time'.
I agreed hastily and retreated quickly, so I could not get the
complete answer to your question. This must do.
2007-05-08 08:49:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Siren - Nightwish Elvenpath – Nightwish Planet Hell - Nightwish My Little Phoenix - Tarja Turunen Naiad - Tarja Turunen The Archive Of Lost Dreams - Tarja Turunen A Demon's Fate - Within Temptation In Perfect Harmony - Within Temptation Mother Earth - Within Temptation
2016-04-01 02:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea...
And frolicked in the Autumn mist...
In a land called Hollaneeeee!!???
2007-05-08 03:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by MRS. EVIL GENIUS 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was about childhood and growing up. In otherwords, how childhood goes up in 'a PUFF of smoke'. Don't believe the drug references. It was really an innocent song......
2007-05-08 03:45:03 · answer #5 · answered by Out on a limb returns 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it was rumored to be about marijuana...I doubt seriously that was so. It was about a child growing up (puff went away went he grew up)
2007-05-08 03:37:43 · answer #6 · answered by Enchanted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people try to project meanings into things but how about this one: It's literal meaning - a children's story told to music.
2007-05-08 03:16:56 · answer #7 · answered by John M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe the song is just what it seems to be, a fairy tale.
Why does everything have to have an alternative, hidden or deeper meaning?
2007-05-08 03:17:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The rumor mill says it's about MJ.
2007-05-08 03:13:12 · answer #9 · answered by Veruca Salt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
america's ridiculous foreign policies - in essence it could be re-released today
2007-05-08 03:14:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋