Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon Message-ID: <519@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:09:45 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.519 Posted: Mon Dec 3 12:09:45 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 04:58:06 EST References: <262@scc.UUCP> <412@hoxna.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 9 > 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.