2007-09-26 23:41:28 · 13 answers · asked by loquita.bella 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The lyrics for "Puff, the Magic Dragon" were based on a 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the Dragon," about a "Really-O, Truly-O, little pet dragon." Lipton passed his poem on to friend and fellow Cornell student Peter Yarrow, who created music and more lyrics to make the poem into the song
2007-09-26 23:45:54 · answer #1 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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.
2016-04-06 03:24:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah I just answered this one already tonight- it is not a drug reference. It is about growing up and leaving behind childhood things. I went to a Peter, Paul, and Mary concert and they answered this question. for pity sake does it have to be chiseled in stone before people believe that it is NOT a drug reference?..nah..I suppose that wouldn't work either because then someone would think..ohh..stone....
2007-09-26 23:49:50 · answer #3 · answered by dances with cats 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
its a drug reference, IE:Magic dragon, Jackie Paper. but its used to describe a childs imagination and how we become too serious as we get older.Puff is Jackie's imaginary friend).
2007-09-26 23:48:48 · answer #4 · answered by jilliebean 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That he was a happy dragon & liked to frolic. :)
2007-09-27 01:12:49 · answer #5 · answered by rat racer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the whole song is a reference to drug use and what its like
2007-09-26 23:44:41 · answer #6 · answered by ♥STREAKER♥©℗† 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It sounds like something that was written with the help of LSD.
2007-09-26 23:44:24 · answer #7 · answered by ♆Şрhĩņxy - Lost In Time. 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Drug reference
2007-09-26 23:43:41 · answer #8 · answered by Lefty 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it was a fable....(had NOTHING to do with drugs...or sex....or violence) it was a folk song.
2007-09-26 23:45:33 · answer #9 · answered by Chrys 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
...He was actually a gay dragon that could do illusions...fact.
2007-09-26 23:44:38 · answer #10 · answered by Seed Plower 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋