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Peter Yarrow wrote this in 1958 before he joined the group. He wrote it after coming home and seeing a poem on his typewriter with words about the dragon. He based his song on this poem, which was written by Lenny Lipton. ... "Puff The Magic Dragon" was the nickname for a gunship used in the Vietnam War.
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Puff, the Magic Dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow and made popular by the group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording. The song is so well-known that it has entered Ame...
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Is 'Puff, the Magic Dragon' a song about marijuana? ... who put a melody to the words and wrote additional lyrics to create the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon." After Yarrow teamed up with Mary Travers and Paul Stookey in 1961 to form Peter, Paul & Mary, the trio performed the song in live shows;
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Lenny Lipton created Puff the Magic Dragon , Jackie Paper, and the Land of HonnaLee , when as a college freshman in 1959 he wrote the poem which became the song made popular by the group Peter, Paul and Mary. Puff was brought to life in his...
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He sat down at the typewriter of Edelstein's roommate, Peter, and decided to write a poem of his own. He wrote for about three minutes and felt somewhat soothed. ... The song, which reached number 2 on the charts early in 1963, was Puff The Magic Dragon. According to Lenny Lipton, it is a simple, sentimental song about the...
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"Puff, The Magic Dragon," the song that folk singers loved to hate, and that generations of children would just ... So, I've been able to say, 'Oh, I wrote that line.' What I brought to it really was the sense, as opposed to the adventure story, of the idea of the loss of innocence, when I wrote, 'A dragon lives forever,
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Earlier this week, we wrote about Paper Bag Records' cool indie rock kids' comp See You On The Moon and gave you an MP3 of Broken Social Scene's trippy "Puff The Magic Dragon," which you deemed weird. Well, it actually... ... Broken Social Scene - "Puff The Magic Dragon (Rejected Version)" (MP3 Link Expired)
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Read More: Barack The Magic Negro, Celebrities Talk Politics, Chip Saltsman, Magic Negro, Peter, Peter Paul And Mary, Peter Yarrow, Puff The Magic Dragon, Rnc Chairman, Rnc Chairman Race, Politics News...
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This was intended to be a short piece about how Chip Saltsman distributed a CD with the political parody "Barack the Magic Negro" set to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon," and how people were angry at him and Mike Duncan at the RNC got his days-of-the-week panties in a bunch, but I decided that to write something...
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