2007-09-26 17:48:15 · 17 answers · asked by YR22005 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
no it is NOT about smoking pot!!! ask paul stookey..it is about growing up and leaving behind the innocence of childhood and childhood things
2007-09-26 17:53:06 · answer #1 · answered by dances with cats 7 · 9⤊ 1⤋
This is very upsetting news. I am a huge Peter, Paul and Mary fan. So many songs I loved that were covered by them. Early Morning Rain If I Had a Hammer. (Hate that song, love them doing it) 500 Miles Where Have All the Flowers Gone. My favorite is probably "500 Miles" ...poignant and simple in its beauty.
2016-05-19 21:48:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard it a few times, and I don't see any references to weed in it really........ only the word"puff" but its the name of the magic dagon lol......it doesnt say "puff....etc etc"
So I couldn't tell u what its about, but I can tell you that i don't think its about smokin weed :)
Theres a lot more songs out there which are totally blunt (no pun intended) about the fact the song is about weed, sooo why drag out a debate about this when the artist of the song has stated that, its not
2007-09-26 18:04:22 · answer #3 · answered by ~amber~ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a little lonely boy who had no friends,found puff the magic dragon who lived by the sea who frollicked in the autumn mist in a land called arna le but when the boy grew up he didnt need the dragon anymore so the dragon went back to his cave by the sea.
2007-09-26 17:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by shrebee 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thank you durtydeuce and designtwilight for the correct answer. It sad that people will take a lovely song about childhood and the carefree innocence that once was and make it about doing drugs. I love the song still. But you can't stop people, if thats what they want to do.
2007-09-27 02:43:27 · answer #5 · answered by dee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's a stretch, maybe it's about a magic dragon named "Puff" and it was a catchy tune the group and its marketing machine at the record company thought would make money? Why does it have to mean anything? Most folk/pop is meaningless poetry. Just memorable ditties to make a buck.
2007-09-26 18:00:03 · answer #6 · answered by ToolManJobber 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Its so easy to say its about smoking pot, but I disagree with that notion. It's really a very sad story about growing up into a colder business-only world. It's about losing your childhood. But it reminds me to stay true to myself and let the kid inside myself out to play sometimes.
Here are the last versus, they are not as popular as the chorus:
A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, jackie paper came no more
And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,
So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. oh!
2007-09-26 17:54:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
A dragon who lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist. And the boy who loved that Magic Puff very much! Now do like the rest of us and put your own twist on what that means. >:)
2007-09-26 17:51:08 · answer #8 · answered by equal_opposites 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Well a comedic movie said it was about drugs so it must be true, right?
Wrong - "The authors of the song have repeatedly and vehemently denied any intentional drug reference."
It is a fantasy story about a boy and a dragon, the end.
2007-09-26 17:55:05 · answer #9 · answered by Billy Dee 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
thank you designtwilight for the words, I used to love that programme and had forgotten the words! from what i remember it was about an imaginary friend for a boy who was mute or was he autistic? nothing to do with drugs.(save that for the magic roundabout!)
2007-09-26 22:20:12 · answer #10 · answered by dancing queen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people think it is about pot. I would suggest renting "Meet the Parents." Funny debate between De Niro' s character and Stiller's character as to what it really means. Even thinking of it now it cracks me up.
2007-09-26 17:54:54 · answer #11 · answered by Kate J 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋