Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!cepu!ucla-cs!faigin From: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon Message-ID: <2833@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 18:25:04 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.2833 Posted: Mon Dec 17 18:25:04 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 04:35:16 EST References: <262@scc.UUCP> <412@hoxna.UUCP> <519@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP (Daniel Faigin) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 31 Summary: [Oh fiddle, he reached my middle, how fine, he swallowed my >> Is there any truth to the old rumor that "Puff the Magic Dragon" is >> about a pusher and a junkie? Absolutly not, as Peter Yarrow the author of the song will tell you. I recall a PP&M concert a couple of years ago where Peter Yarrow talked about what would happen if you kept trying to apply interpretations like this to songs like Puff and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (which is not aboult LSD -- read the Paul & Linda McCartney interview in Playboy). Anyway, in this concert, Peter Yarrow gave as an example the Star Spangled Banner: Oh, Say can you SEE -- SEE = C = Cocaine. By the Dawns Early Light -- "Dawn" -- when most junkies shoot up. -- | Daniel P. Faigin | I'm not saying the party's University of California at Los Angeles | over, I just wanted to tell | you how very good it has UUCP: {cepu|ihnp4|trwspp|ucbvax}!ucla-cs!faigin | been up till now. ARPA: faigin@UCLA-CS.ARPA | USPS (Home): 11743 Darlington Avenue #9 | Isn't it so funny how time Los Angeles CA 90049 | flies? (213) 826-3357 |