Why the fu*k does everybody think this is about pot!? They should be ashamed!! This is a sad truthful, should be respected song!! I cry whenever I her this!!!! I hate the idiots in society.....
I sure wouldn't mind going back to 1968,even if i'd have to be a little boy again for the rest of my life,cause like it says in the bob seger song from 1979 against the wind,sure wish that i didn't know now,what i didn't know then,AND JUDITH DURHAM would be the beautiful young girl in her early 20s still sing I'll never find another you..
I have always thought that Little Jacky Paper should have looked after his Dragon better than he did...I got kicked out of my Kindergarten class for saying so...so there Miss Grace of Smithfield Primary N.S.W 1968 I`m still a mouthy so and so!!
Are you absolutely sure this is The Seekers? Doesn't sound like Judith. Is it a very new recording? Anyway it is no match to the original by Peter, Paul & MARY
@54SV you're right - no match at all. this is far superior! Of course it's the Seekers -live in concert. Judith sounds fabulous and note perfect as ever.
Be mature but dont ever grow up. Hold on to your imagination for it is the only place in existance where there is magic and even an old man can can be a little kid again sailing with a smile on his face through pirate filled waters.
Little Jackie Paper will have a massive growth spurt and become known as Hagrid, then research dragon family trees for his future baby Norbie and bundle him off to Romania where great Uncle Puff can look after him so he don't get homesick.
@Ilovecats112233 *Giggle* Oh if only! And then Jude and the boys can write a song about that, and no-one will say it has anything to do with drugs. Oh, and @54SV: Yes, that's definitely The Seekers. It's the full song, so I'd say it's probably from their 2000 tour, since the 1993 one only had an abridged version of the song... I think, so please don't quote me. And its definitely Judith.
yep, but the Seekers are an Aussie group and the "D" is usually shorter in our accents anyway because we naturally don't emphasis it. "Live" and "Lived" are almost identiticle in aussie accents.
The song is not about weed or autism - it is based on a poem by Leonard Lipton, a fellow Cornell University student of Peter Yarrow (Peter Paul and Mary). Lipton still gets half the royalties for the song.
I think It's a good song. I think it's a good song about a dragon and a kid's friendship in a magical kingdom. Whether or not it is about kids with autism, or weed, or asylum kids, has no effect on the quality of the music.
Let a good song be just a good song, for the sake of the music.
I constantly sang this song to my babies through their teenage years. Then they didn't have any more time for it. Now nearly 40 years later, I sing it to my grandchildren and they love it and gaze at me in admiration. I once again feel like a million bucks. Thanks for a wonderful children's song sung by a wonderful group - the Seekers.
I constantly sang this song to my babies through their teenagers. Then they didn't have any more time for it. Now I sing it to my grandchildren and they love it and gaze at me in admiration. I once again feel like a million bucks. Thanks for a wonderful children's song sung by a wonderful group - the Seekers.
dofmaster you are so right, an imaginary friend that was out grown, and just goes on to imagine what it would be like if it were true. we all had imaginary friends, mine was hermie, he wasn't a dragon, but a rwal monster lol
I wont claim to know if the song is about drugs or children growing up but I wonder if two places mentioned are real to PY. There is a town of by the sea named Hanalei in Kauai, Hawaii. Would be pronounced "lay" not l"lee" but could be the inspiration changed to rhyme with sea. And maybe there is s street somewhere to PY's knowledge called Cherry Lane.
Just as Strawberry Field and Penny Lane were real places the Beatles wrote about.
I read once that Peter Yarrow was living in Cornell N.Y. It didn't specifficly say what he was doing there buit said that he was visited by a first year student. This first year student was struggling with the loss of childhood inherent in attending university and wrote the words to the song. Peter Yarrow wrote the music.
This wasn't even a Seekers song - it belonged to Peter, Paul and Mary ... but when the Seekers reunited for their Silve Jubliee tour, they recorded this at one of their concerts, saying they were often requested for it, just as the other group was often requested for Morningtown Ride which IS a Seekers song.
For over 40 years I have heard how this song is about toking on a joint. For the love of GOD.....give it a rest peeps. This is a childhood song. ENOUGH...already !
Lovely, although my fave version will always be that sung by Keith Field on A Handful of Songs, when I was little.
I can see why people think it's about drugs; Jacky's company seems to be like a drug, to Puff. Maybe people feel they can conquer pirates, do anything, when they're high? Then later suffer from withdrawal symptoms, feeling they can't be brave without the drug. When Puff "no longer plays along the cherry lane", could it mean he no longer sees psychedelic colours?
Then there's me, the young and bouncy, a teen catwoman from ears to ankles to teacups to key ring - taller than Dee, but so thin that I too seem a midget to Sue. She swept both of us into a hug when we were crying ("There, there sweetheart") and I reckon we looked like hobbits. Both occasions reminded me of Puff and little Jackie Paper. Maybe it’s the absence of circuses that makes Saturdays particularly busy for us loonies.
This song comes to my mind on Saturdays because of my own group of friends. We have big friendly Sue, one of the church ladies, our slow, placid giant who amuses us with her dawdling and daydreaming, and there's pretty, shrill little Dee, the quirky and chaotic manager with her many catastrophes, multiple occupations and her flappy, over-emotional ways.
Beyond the mention of the word "puff" in the title, is there anything in this song which justifies the daft suggestions this song is about drugs? I mean, what is the supposed allegory here? Why not just about kids having vivid imaginations which fade as they get older.
@ThaddeusTheBaddeus I guess the odd last name "paper" makes people think that it's an allegory to marijuana use. I can't think though how strings or sealing wax would fit into that.
I read that there was a freshman at Cornell who wrote it because he was experiencing the sense of lost childhood. At that time Yarrow was also in Cornell and the freshman gave Peter the lyrics. Peter wroth the music. He claims that that was way bdfore drugs became a big thing on college campuses.
its not about weed or the loss of a childs innocence.... watch the whole episode.....its low key about kids with Autism, i had a whole lesson on this in my physcology course in college last semester. jackie draper in real life could not inerect in real life so said the doctors. he was a "special" boy, so puff the magic dragon had to make a paper version of him called jackie paper to come interact wih him in his own personal world in his head. Its trying to show how life is hard for austistics
@dogmaster1313 The film story was about an autistic boy, but it came along much later than the song. The song could have been whatever Peter Yarrow had in his mind. I always loved the song and liked the film a lot too. While fiction, it does point out that many of our problems are in our minds.
@dogmaster1313 "He (Peter Yarrow) has also said of the song that it 'never had any meaning other than the obvious one' and is about the 'loss of innocence'." Just sayin'...
It actually is about the loss of childhood innocence as Jackie Paper no longer plays with Puff because she has grown up and forgotten about him, puff returns to his lonely cave forever. Puff was her imaginary friend...
But you are also right, there are multiple themes to the song and Autism is certainly suggested. It's like how Wizard of Oz was dedicated to Dorothy, his deceased baby Neice. Originally the character was supposed to be a young boy.
but you can also view the theme of Autism, and she has in fact died at the end after a "lifelong" friendship.... either way it's exceptionally sad, the final verse. Either she has grown up and forgotten puff forever, or she has died...
@goldensilent09 As it happens, I have spoken to Peter personally about this at a festival, and he not only didn't write it about Weed, but after decades, He's still irked that people ever gave it that connotation.
If you search Youtube, you'll find a video of them performing the song, and him showing his irritation about it some, as he begins the song.
This song makes me sad :( Even though it ends happily, it just reminds you that in your life you're gonna loose a friend and they wont want you even childhood memories that you can't hold on to... call me sapppy but that's how this song comes across for me
The song was written well before any cartoon or book was written on the topic. It's from the mind of Peter Yarrow, and I suppose he is the only one knows if it's about drugs. Personally I doubt it.
This song makes me remember when i was a young boy,my father would always play this on the walkman...To bad nobody has respect for their history no more,talking about a song that is olderthan you saying "its weed." I mean cmon! Grow up!
This song is not about weed. It is based on a book/cartoon called Puff the magic dragon. Some stoners later realized it sounds like Puffing . But read the lyrics and youll see that only the name of the dragon (puff the magic dragon) can be associated with mariuhana . The rest will in no way really fit ;)
love this song, so nostalgic! when you were young, this was just a happy song your parents used to sing to you, now it gets sadder and sadder the older you get:(
@nspo When my children were small I used to tell them bedtime stories based on Biff the Purple Bear. We spent many adventures getting lost and finding our way out of the Enchanted Forest. My kids shared those stories with their little friends. Puff and Biff were sad stories of growing up and away from childhood, but there was always the promise of other children coming to play with Biff and Puff. They are tales of rebirth.
im 15 and listened to this song in 1st grade with my whole class.and we all cried. i remember we were just standing in line crying lol.and on that bus!
its actually about 18 years old protesting about how its legal for them to get fucked up the ass in porn but they can't drink a glass of wine till they're 21
there is more then one reference he brought him strings and ceiling wax and other fancy stuff...its referencing opium. but it can also reference a child losing his imagination and the sadness in leaving behind a childhood and becoming an adult. i think it can mean what u want it to theres multiple meanings
What else would you call your pet dragon? Smoky? Mum in law? Get a life. I have serious doubts about those who introduce that topic, "drugs", into civilised conversation. It tells me more than (for example, you) could ever realise. Before you reply, remember, you brought illegal substances into this arena.
smoking pot to this song, ahh good old times
StarAngelKimmie 2 days ago
i wonder what they were saying?
DarknessGerbil552 1 week ago
Oh my god I rember singing this, about 20 years ago, when I was 5/6 years old at school.
The good ol days.
Andi090386 2 weeks ago
Why the fu*k does everybody think this is about pot!? They should be ashamed!! This is a sad truthful, should be respected song!! I cry whenever I her this!!!! I hate the idiots in society.....
snakeloverableful 1 month ago
Forces favourites radio , sunday dinner time..... memories, great parents great times..
villageoldman 2 months ago
I'ma puff my magic dragon right now!
packedcrack 2 months ago
I used to hear this song when I was 5, and cried. Now, many years later, I still cry.
"I used to cry,
and my teacher asked why
And I will simply say
'For me to be happy there is no way.
Now that Puff has lost his long life friend,
None of my problems I can emend''
I
marisanabriah 2 months ago 3
puff is a kite....
dust8203 2 months ago
I sure wouldn't mind going back to 1968,even if i'd have to be a little boy again for the rest of my life,cause like it says in the bob seger song from 1979 against the wind,sure wish that i didn't know now,what i didn't know then,AND JUDITH DURHAM would be the beautiful young girl in her early 20s still sing I'll never find another you..
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Puff the magic Hamster lived in the conservertry
And frolicked in some fluff' n' stuff
and bounces on my knee!
He was the cutest hamster I ever did see
But we remember lil' Pom was as cute as cute could beeeeeeeee!
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@54SV it's a later recording of theirs. I'd guess the 70s or 80s. It's definitely them, I've heard it before.
colliric 3 months ago
I have always thought that Little Jacky Paper should have looked after his Dragon better than he did...I got kicked out of my Kindergarten class for saying so...so there Miss Grace of Smithfield Primary N.S.W 1968 I`m still a mouthy so and so!!
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kookaburrakookaburra 3 months ago
Yeah, and neither is HR Puffin Stuff--the place you go when things get rough.Lol
Firewoman888 4 months ago
Are you absolutely sure this is The Seekers? Doesn't sound like Judith. Is it a very new recording? Anyway it is no match to the original by Peter, Paul & MARY
54SV 4 months ago
@54SV That's definitely Keith singing the "Together they would travel" verse.
RM1SS 4 months ago
@54SV you're right - no match at all. this is far superior! Of course it's the Seekers -live in concert. Judith sounds fabulous and note perfect as ever.
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Ilovecats112233 4 months ago
my teacher put this song in a math thingyy to make it more fun...love you (as a teacher) mr. fassl(:
thetuffy123456 4 months ago
poof the magic drag queen....sounds more suitable for this generation, don't you think? fabulous!
zes2104 5 months ago 2
puff is the kids imaginary friend right? thats what the songs about right?
DrEastSide 5 months ago
great song free the weed
manofmusicx 5 months ago
If anyone separates Puff from that little kid they should let him blow fire right on their asses. How could you do that to them. Oh the humanity.
Mannchild11 5 months ago
@Mannchild11 The reason they were seperated is because Jackie the little boy grew up and on to "other toys".
Jerryjeffelvis 4 months ago
Be mature but dont ever grow up. Hold on to your imagination for it is the only place in existance where there is magic and even an old man can can be a little kid again sailing with a smile on his face through pirate filled waters.
Temujin91 5 months ago 3
i think its sad. i cry everytime i hear this song and i really dont know why.
gothicchic97 5 months ago 3
i used to sing this all the time in primary school... and always cried D':
TheSunnieSkies 5 months ago
What a beautiful time when song were about peace and happiness, people lived together and shared there life with each other.
The world was on its way to turn in to a paradise but some were we took the wrong turn and now we live in a world filed with hate.
uzb1 5 months ago
The kid came back with the soup nazi...
mark1mod0 6 months ago
Best version ever, after the one I heard in Budapest in Hungarian at an open air concert.
starchie 6 months ago
still makes me cry
lancomelvr 6 months ago
a tale about friendship... actually...
Marhadi58 6 months ago
AH YES..living in a fairy tale world is obviously the best :) love remembering this song..awesome.. puff the magic dragon lived by the sea...
varania7 6 months ago
Little Jackie Paper will have a massive growth spurt and become known as Hagrid, then research dragon family trees for his future baby Norbie and bundle him off to Romania where great Uncle Puff can look after him so he don't get homesick.
Ilovecats112233 7 months ago 33
@Ilovecats112233
hagrid?? like from harry potter?? haha
thetuffy123456 4 months ago
@thetuffy123456 Harry Potter is so shit
y3ko86 1 month ago
@y3ko86 harrry potter is AMAZING...you're shit.
thetuffy123456 1 month ago
@Ilovecats112233 *Giggle* Oh if only! And then Jude and the boys can write a song about that, and no-one will say it has anything to do with drugs. Oh, and @54SV: Yes, that's definitely The Seekers. It's the full song, so I'd say it's probably from their 2000 tour, since the 1993 one only had an abridged version of the song... I think, so please don't quote me. And its definitely Judith.
TerriTheSeeker 2 months ago
That's one goofy looking dragon.
Ilovecats112233 7 months ago
Al Bundy took me here. :D
gsharro 7 months ago
did anyone else notice the weird vocal "Live" by the male vocalist at 0:49?
meatballllll 7 months ago
@meatballllll I tried to listen for it and didn't hear anything that stood out
HowDareThey1970 7 months ago
@meatballllll
yep, but the Seekers are an Aussie group and the "D" is usually shorter in our accents anyway because we naturally don't emphasis it. "Live" and "Lived" are almost identiticle in aussie accents.
colliric 7 months ago
I know puff lived by the sea, but you never see Fraw, the other dragon that licked in the autumn mist....
robbieisbatman 8 months ago
@robbieisbatman Good one!
PoppaBlue59 7 months ago
The song is not about weed or autism - it is based on a poem by Leonard Lipton, a fellow Cornell University student of Peter Yarrow (Peter Paul and Mary). Lipton still gets half the royalties for the song.
RoscoHead 8 months ago
The dragon looks like he is on acid...
WafflesFromHeaven 8 months ago
i cry every time
FalloutOldVegas 8 months ago
@FalloutOldVegas I KNOW MAN, I KNOW!!!!!! :'(
crazywaffle12 7 months ago
where the fuck does it mention weed serious FUCK OFF if you think that we used to sing this in reception which is 5years old if you dont kno
drunkglitch 8 months ago in playlist Web cam funny
i love this song.... let it be ok that itrs about marijuana... its stupid to say it isnt
FalloutOldVegas 8 months ago
I LOVE WEED 0.0
Mdeil20 9 months ago
This song is so sad
xoxopattybear92xoxo 9 months ago 2
I think It's a good song. I think it's a good song about a dragon and a kid's friendship in a magical kingdom. Whether or not it is about kids with autism, or weed, or asylum kids, has no effect on the quality of the music.
Let a good song be just a good song, for the sake of the music.
canadiantothebakon 9 months ago 18
@canadiantothebakon well said!
Speechless501 9 months ago
@canadiantothebakon how is it about those things? I'm genuinely curious :) I had no idea.
Meganrosealto 4 days ago
It's Toy Story 3 all over...
dalegrett 9 months ago 2
@dalegrett actually if that's what you think, it would be Toy Story 3 is THIS all over lol.
Speechless501 9 months ago
I constantly sang this song to my babies through their teenage years. Then they didn't have any more time for it. Now nearly 40 years later, I sing it to my grandchildren and they love it and gaze at me in admiration. I once again feel like a million bucks. Thanks for a wonderful children's song sung by a wonderful group - the Seekers.
etransform 9 months ago 3
I constantly sang this song to my babies through their teenagers. Then they didn't have any more time for it. Now I sing it to my grandchildren and they love it and gaze at me in admiration. I once again feel like a million bucks. Thanks for a wonderful children's song sung by a wonderful group - the Seekers.
etransform 9 months ago
Having two autistic kids myself, I'm glad this beloved song has this story attached to it. I always think of my kids whenever I hear it.
emeraldseagull 9 months ago
My dad told me this song is about smoking marijuana.
MrsSpyro01 9 months ago
this song is my favorite it shows that how we grow up we lose our imganation and that is true
DrumBass4ever 9 months ago
Thumbs up if bretts beatbox videos comment made you search for puff the magic dragon
HyperRandomTutorials 10 months ago
dofmaster you are so right, an imaginary friend that was out grown, and just goes on to imagine what it would be like if it were true. we all had imaginary friends, mine was hermie, he wasn't a dragon, but a rwal monster lol
Reservoir1951 10 months ago
What's that thing that looks like a bong
MrYoyogiggles 10 months ago
I wont claim to know if the song is about drugs or children growing up but I wonder if two places mentioned are real to PY. There is a town of by the sea named Hanalei in Kauai, Hawaii. Would be pronounced "lay" not l"lee" but could be the inspiration changed to rhyme with sea. And maybe there is s street somewhere to PY's knowledge called Cherry Lane.
Just as Strawberry Field and Penny Lane were real places the Beatles wrote about.
52gt 10 months ago
I read once that Peter Yarrow was living in Cornell N.Y. It didn't specifficly say what he was doing there buit said that he was visited by a first year student. This first year student was struggling with the loss of childhood inherent in attending university and wrote the words to the song. Peter Yarrow wrote the music.
ConnieRadbone 10 months ago
This wasn't even a Seekers song - it belonged to Peter, Paul and Mary ... but when the Seekers reunited for their Silve Jubliee tour, they recorded this at one of their concerts, saying they were often requested for it, just as the other group was often requested for Morningtown Ride which IS a Seekers song.
roseanne74 11 months ago 2
i really felt sorry for mr. dragon, it makes me wanna cry just to know someone was left behind and misses someone. :''(
benedict521 11 months ago 2
Find out how the original lyrics author says about the song: lennylipton-dot-wordpress-dot-com
cheval63sg 11 months ago
For over 40 years I have heard how this song is about toking on a joint. For the love of GOD.....give it a rest peeps. This is a childhood song. ENOUGH...already !
hotforxx 11 months ago
@hotforxx TRUE ITS TOO BAD THEY TAKE SUCH A NICE LITTLE TUNE AND RUIN IT WITH LOUSY LYRICS
sutonchef 10 months ago
my god this is fantastic such great memories of childhood
davesdolphins06 11 months ago
Lovely, although my fave version will always be that sung by Keith Field on A Handful of Songs, when I was little.
I can see why people think it's about drugs; Jacky's company seems to be like a drug, to Puff. Maybe people feel they can conquer pirates, do anything, when they're high? Then later suffer from withdrawal symptoms, feeling they can't be brave without the drug. When Puff "no longer plays along the cherry lane", could it mean he no longer sees psychedelic colours?
battywattywoo 11 months ago
Then there's me, the young and bouncy, a teen catwoman from ears to ankles to teacups to key ring - taller than Dee, but so thin that I too seem a midget to Sue. She swept both of us into a hug when we were crying ("There, there sweetheart") and I reckon we looked like hobbits. Both occasions reminded me of Puff and little Jackie Paper. Maybe it’s the absence of circuses that makes Saturdays particularly busy for us loonies.
Ilovecats112233 11 months ago
This song comes to my mind on Saturdays because of my own group of friends. We have big friendly Sue, one of the church ladies, our slow, placid giant who amuses us with her dawdling and daydreaming, and there's pretty, shrill little Dee, the quirky and chaotic manager with her many catastrophes, multiple occupations and her flappy, over-emotional ways.
Ilovecats112233 11 months ago
I don't care if the song is about drugs. I like it because of the nice melody!
MrRiffraff84 11 months ago
wow...havnt seen that in forver ...still juz az awesome >.<
Magzterful 11 months ago
This reminds me of Sophie and the B.F.G ...
Ilovecats112233 11 months ago
this clip is quite sad...
mchei 11 months ago
so MANY memories. just so many
lilylpotter3 11 months ago
My childhood relived XD
I remember watching this cartoon in school. hehe
erailea 11 months ago
After listening to that song for about 40 years I think its just a good song.
Kinda of reminds me of the relationship I have with my dumb ole hound dog
1Manhattangold 1 year ago
Es la high skill!
Nishmaelle 1 year ago
Beyond the mention of the word "puff" in the title, is there anything in this song which justifies the daft suggestions this song is about drugs? I mean, what is the supposed allegory here? Why not just about kids having vivid imaginations which fade as they get older.
ThaddeusTheBaddeus 1 year ago
@ThaddeusTheBaddeus I guess the odd last name "paper" makes people think that it's an allegory to marijuana use. I can't think though how strings or sealing wax would fit into that.
HowDareThey1970 11 months ago
this is a good song
SuperFreddie100 1 year ago
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"Are you a pothead, Focker?"
joshuk12 1 year ago
Jeesh, did they ever sing anything original?
If it weren't for Joan, Judy and PP&M they would sung have only had Georgy Girl and those cheesy TV show songs.
taddyd1 1 year ago
me 57 vintage i can find solace and peace in this magical song today QLD Australia we all can use a little magic.
goannamannor 1 year ago
lil brother luvz puff
ViktorVonSpork 1 year ago
Pure and moving. Always wet eyes, thanks to sluggymansluggy2!
Schoonderloostraat 1 year ago
The hero's of Nam know all to well who Puff is and if you think its for drugging you have another thing coming!!!!!!!
4IAMATITOK 1 year ago
Judith Durham adds a special touch to this special song.
ricklawn 1 year ago
stephen fry sed on qi that it wasnt about drugs. so there :)
AvalaDemson 1 year ago
Ive watched this like a million times (obviously exaggerating) and it still Always makes me cry
narutosasuke0125 1 year ago
lol. "Puff the magic dragon"... wtf they teaching kids. no wonder y some many people grew up smokin weed
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tapefilms 1 year ago
I remember this song well.
It is a classic that the Seekers made even better.
Thank you.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 1 year ago
I read that there was a freshman at Cornell who wrote it because he was experiencing the sense of lost childhood. At that time Yarrow was also in Cornell and the freshman gave Peter the lyrics. Peter wroth the music. He claims that that was way bdfore drugs became a big thing on college campuses.
ConnieRadbone 1 year ago
all my life, ever since I first heard it when I was 3, this song has made me cry, but I still love it.
todalyweirdgirl 1 year ago
its not about weed or the loss of a childs innocence.... watch the whole episode.....its low key about kids with Autism, i had a whole lesson on this in my physcology course in college last semester. jackie draper in real life could not inerect in real life so said the doctors. he was a "special" boy, so puff the magic dragon had to make a paper version of him called jackie paper to come interact wih him in his own personal world in his head. Its trying to show how life is hard for austistics
dogmaster1313 1 year ago 26
@dogmaster1313 Wow, thats really interesting actually. I have 2 autistic kids
mezhiya 1 year ago
@dogmaster1313 It may well fit autistic children but according to the writer it was indeed about the end of childhood.
cooltooth112 11 months ago 2
@dogmaster1313 I think your Psychology teacher needs a Psychiatrist. The song and story are about an Imaginary friend of a little boy. Nothing More
sixtiesforever1966 11 months ago 2
@sixtiesforever1966 He's talking about the Puff The Magic Dragon cartoon, which has a different plot than the song.
itmovesitchats 10 months ago
@dogmaster1313 The film story was about an autistic boy, but it came along much later than the song. The song could have been whatever Peter Yarrow had in his mind. I always loved the song and liked the film a lot too. While fiction, it does point out that many of our problems are in our minds.
usaruss 9 months ago
@dogmaster1313 what do you mean, inerect?
Speechless501 9 months ago
@Speechless501 I think that was a spelling mistake.
Ilovecats112233 8 months ago
@Ilovecats112233 yeah I know. I was kidding.
Speechless501 8 months ago
@dogmaster1313 "He (Peter Yarrow) has also said of the song that it 'never had any meaning other than the obvious one' and is about the 'loss of innocence'." Just sayin'...
yayforspooky 7 months ago
@dogmaster1313 This song way, way predates the cartoon. The interpretation of the song has been debated for decades.
HowDareThey1970 7 months ago
@dogmaster1313
It actually is about the loss of childhood innocence as Jackie Paper no longer plays with Puff because she has grown up and forgotten about him, puff returns to his lonely cave forever. Puff was her imaginary friend...
But you are also right, there are multiple themes to the song and Autism is certainly suggested. It's like how Wizard of Oz was dedicated to Dorothy, his deceased baby Neice. Originally the character was supposed to be a young boy.
colliric 6 months ago
@dogmaster1313
but you can also view the theme of Autism, and she has in fact died at the end after a "lifelong" friendship.... either way it's exceptionally sad, the final verse. Either she has grown up and forgotten puff forever, or she has died...
colliric 6 months ago
@dogmaster1313 hahahahahahaha, I think youve got autism if you believe that
grandsimplicity 5 months ago
apprently it's about smoking "puff the magic dragon"
goldensilent09 1 year ago
@goldensilent09 Its not about drugs......
5200SLAYER 1 year ago
@goldensilent09 As it happens, I have spoken to Peter personally about this at a festival, and he not only didn't write it about Weed, but after decades, He's still irked that people ever gave it that connotation.
If you search Youtube, you'll find a video of them performing the song, and him showing his irritation about it some, as he begins the song.
Destiny4511 1 year ago
lol @ doland
Shift9001 1 year ago
1:02 why does jackie need to keep look out if their not smoking? why would these pirates get so excited about the mention of his name?
dp9eagle13 1 year ago
This song makes me sad :( Even though it ends happily, it just reminds you that in your life you're gonna loose a friend and they wont want you even childhood memories that you can't hold on to... call me sapppy but that's how this song comes across for me
Flom987o 1 year ago
The song was written well before any cartoon or book was written on the topic. It's from the mind of Peter Yarrow, and I suppose he is the only one knows if it's about drugs. Personally I doubt it.
jnf91 1 year ago 44
@jnf91 Yarrow has repeatedly denied references to drugs.
DoomRater 1 year ago
@jnf91 personally, that dragon looks pretty fucking baked
monkeyonalongboard99 7 months ago
Love this song, and on Norwegian, i'm always get tears! :')
Dina136 1 year ago
Love this song, and on Norwegian, i'm always get tars! :')
Dina136 1 year ago
This song makes me remember when i was a young boy,my father would always play this on the walkman...To bad nobody has respect for their history no more,talking about a song that is olderthan you saying "its weed." I mean cmon! Grow up!
TheMrpeanut55 1 year ago 3
This song is not about weed. It is based on a book/cartoon called Puff the magic dragon. Some stoners later realized it sounds like Puffing . But read the lyrics and youll see that only the name of the dragon (puff the magic dragon) can be associated with mariuhana . The rest will in no way really fit ;)
PS love the song
DaNewJumpah 1 year ago
My daddy used to pull out the guitar and play this for me and my sister. My favorite childhood memories all involve this song :)
lotheriel79 1 year ago 2
love this song, so nostalgic! when you were young, this was just a happy song your parents used to sing to you, now it gets sadder and sadder the older you get:(
kbergsland 1 year ago 3
@kbergsland so true
timothymochley 1 year ago
This is testing the limits of my memory, but it still brings a tear to my eye.
CrystalHunter1989 1 year ago
I don't know what this song is 'really' about...but I do know that it just made me cry.
floppetylove 1 year ago
This was my favorite childhood memory(didn't have many) But now it's my grand daughter's fav.(her childhood much better
ladykane101 1 year ago
Like politics...ppl will associate anything to their cause...only in recent years I have heard this was associated with drug use
cheers Dave
beachbumdave 1 year ago
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Could the creator add one more verse that I have come across. The kids will love it and the adults could just stop the video before the last verse.
But young ones love adventure, games for bold and brave
Soon daniel drum and johny plum had found puff's magic cave
With coloured flags a waiving, they frolic by the shore
And children come from miles around to hear Puff's mighty roar
sjtjejvjejn 1 year ago
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Could the creator add one more verse that I have come across. The kids will love it and the adults could just stop the video before the last verse.
But young ones love adventure, games for bold and brave
Soon daniel drum and johny plum had found puff's magic cave
With coloured flags a waiving, they frolic by the shore
And children come from miles around to hear Puff's mighty roar
sjtjejvjejn 1 year ago
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Could the creator add one more verse that I have come across. The kids will love it and the adults could just stop the video before the last verse.
But young ones love adventure, games for bold and brave
Soon daniel drum and johny plum had found puff's magic cave
With coloured flags a waiving, they frolic by the shore
And children come from miles around to hear Puff's mighty roar
sjtjejvjejn 1 year ago
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sjtjejvjejn 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Could the creator add one more verse that I have come across. The kids will love it and the adults could just stop the video before the last verse.
But young ones love adventure, games for bold and brave
Soon daniel drum and johny plum had found puff's magic cave
With coloured flags a waiving, they frolic by the shore
And children come from miles around to hear Puff's mighty roar
sjtjejvjejn 1 year ago 4
lol but u got to say that th dragon does look stoned on the video
Reappere 1 year ago
Actually a sad story!
me51you 1 year ago
you SERIOUSLY have to be on crack, meth, and ecstasy to make this whole idea about the movie
FOBrian666 1 year ago
the 5 who don't like this video are stupid. who wouldn't like this cute wittle video? it's soooooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!
clubpenguinwoahs 1 year ago
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clubpenguinwoahs 1 year ago
WTF o_0
Megawarrior6 1 year ago
Puff the magic dragon, a bird of days long gone, cam to fly in the evening sky in a land called vietnam!
Lusth0g 1 year ago
Dragon finds boy. Drgon loses boy. Dragon finds bo again. Age old story.
AnotherCuppaCoffee 1 year ago
Isn't it hilarious so many people thought this was about drugs?
Darksteal2k7 1 year ago
@Darksteal2k7: To me, it's more infuriating rather than hilarious. But this song still makes me a bit teary-eyed when I hear it.
saikyoryu 1 year ago
Sealing wax-- the stuff you melt, dribble on an envelope and then stamp with a design so if anyone opens it, they break the wax seal.
IMO this song is sad ala Biff the Friendly Purple Bear.
nspo 1 year ago
@nspo When my children were small I used to tell them bedtime stories based on Biff the Purple Bear. We spent many adventures getting lost and finding our way out of the Enchanted Forest. My kids shared those stories with their little friends. Puff and Biff were sad stories of growing up and away from childhood, but there was always the promise of other children coming to play with Biff and Puff. They are tales of rebirth.
HiWayLady49 1 year ago
how is this a kids song? This is the saddest most depressing song I have ever heard.
tankmaster1018 1 year ago
im 15 and listened to this song in 1st grade with my whole class.and we all cried. i remember we were just standing in line crying lol.and on that bus!
xTheLameOhx 1 year ago
im puffing the magic dragon right now
bfmv416 1 year ago
the dad looks like weird al
wackyryanandfriends 1 year ago
On puff's gigantic diicckkk
koopatroopa397 1 year ago
I love this song...my twinboys always was singing this song, when they was about 5 years old<3<3<3
helava0604 1 year ago
So who's gonna puff the magic dragon with me?
supercrevolution 1 year ago 2
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MrSartak1977 1 year ago
@MrSartak1977
Lighten up (literally) :p
supercrevolution 1 year ago
ok my friend rewrote this song and made me believe that she wrote it!!!
lol
now i can bug her... or she can bug me
sun2dust 1 year ago
I like this song! It's very nice and sad :3
puptylor4 1 year ago
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its actually about 18 years old protesting about how its legal for them to get fucked up the ass in porn but they can't drink a glass of wine till they're 21
lowaces 1 year ago
soooooooooooo sad :'(
01indiangrl 1 year ago
there is more then one reference he brought him strings and ceiling wax and other fancy stuff...its referencing opium. but it can also reference a child losing his imagination and the sadness in leaving behind a childhood and becoming an adult. i think it can mean what u want it to theres multiple meanings
liberalpwr99 1 year ago
puff puff !! lol
lostpebble 1 year ago
This still makes me sad :(
TheShelleyMae 1 year ago 26
@TheShelleyMae Me too ... I refuse to even listen to it these days
roseanne74 1 year ago
awsome song lol
dacrazymole 1 year ago
What else would you call your pet dragon? Smoky? Mum in law? Get a life. I have serious doubts about those who introduce that topic, "drugs", into civilised conversation. It tells me more than (for example, you) could ever realise. Before you reply, remember, you brought illegal substances into this arena.
royallaspice1 1 year ago 3
my fave song EVA!!!
Marsinatoralpha 1 year ago
obviously about drugs - sorry guys!
amyshaw1423 1 year ago
sorry, you're wrong.
royallaspice1 1 year ago