Peter Yarrow - Puff, the Magic Dragon LIVE!

Peter Yarrow, Bethany Yarrow, and Rufus Cappadocia perform a beautiful rendition of the international classic "Puff, the Magic Dragon."

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• dragon
• peter
• yarrow
• bethany
• rufus
• cappadocia
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• magic

[cjwaywell]

Lipton wrote the most of what is now Puff the Magic Dragon with the intent on it being innocent. It was supposed to a tale of boyhood and how "little boys" grow up and childhood fantasies fade away as they age.

Leonard left his poem in the hands of Peter Yarrow, who made some revisions and turned it into lyrics. The group Peter, Paul, & Mary made it a popular and well known song.

Some idiots think it is about drugs, chasing the dragon, snorting smoke and giant rings and all of that.

[Sayjo3]

Urban Legend perpetuated by stoners ^_^

[simcoxk]

wow. she is the spitting image of her dad!

[Destiny4511]

@poger12345 "quite officical that its bout weed"

I met Peter Yarrow in the late 1990's at the Kerrville Folk Festival and we chatted for a little while. One of the subjects was how Puff is about the loss of the innocence and imagination of childhood, and how hacked off Peter is, to this day, that pot connotations were ever associated with it, despite the fact that they date back to the 1960's.

THAT is The Horse's Mouth, so to speak... about as official as you can possibly get.

[poger12345]

@cjwaywell no cause cause this i from my sister who learned it in college music lesson and its quite officical that its bout weed ... his last joint

[mikrosha]

great song, but tuned a step and a half down :( it is sad to see that Yarrow is older and it is hard for him to sing the original. either way, one of my favorite songs of all time, touches me every time :)

[captainsparkles20202]

smoked a blunt and listened to this and started crying, because I was thinking about my early childhood and how much fun it was with no worries (hakuna matata!). That High...

[idrnoel]

I need to get my hands on the book.

[vernoxpsycho]

I love how at the end, even though it was sad, that Jackie's daughter came to play with puff. So I consider it to be that Jackie went away to bring Puff another playmate.

(Yes I know the actual meaning of the song, and no it isn't drugs.)

[civicshrine]

so wonderful ... I looooove this ...

[damonmoloney]

Rory (2yrs old) has listened to this clip about a hundred times. We LOVE it!!!.

[thePatrickSnow]

I was just curious, are there added lyrics in the new book that go with the new happy ending of the girl (presumably Jackie Paper's daughter) meeting Puff? If so, anyone want to post them? :]