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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
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 18:25:04 1984
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Reply-To: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP (Daniel Faigin)
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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.
-- 

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