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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:09:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 12:09:45 1984
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> Is there any truth to the old rumor that "Puff the Magic Dragon" is
> about a pusher and a junkie?

The writer of "Puff" recently had a letter in the New York Times (regarding
the Vietnam era counter-insurgency plane nicknamed "Puff") stating that the
song is exactly what it appears, a song about losing the innocence of youth.

J.R.R. Tolkien also used to get sick of people reading all kinds of hidden
meanings into his work.