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The lyrics for "Puff" were based on a 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the Dragon", about a "realio, trulio, little pet dragon." Lipton passed his poem on to his friend Peter Yarrow, who added a tune and additional lyrics to transform the poem into the song. The lyrics tell a bittersweet story of the un-aging dragon Puff and his playmate Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood.
Believed by many people to secretly refer to smoking marijuana, "Puff" became a hippie anthem. However, the creators of the song flatly deny any intentional drug reference (compare " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds").
The title character was adopted into a series of TV specials voiced by Burgess MeredithBurgess Meredith ( November 16, 1909 September 9, 1997) was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing the Penguin on the television series Batman''. The Penguin's trademark quacking laugh was actually Meredith's attempt to cover up coughing fits,. In this series, Puff is a wise dragon who comes to help children who need him.
Due to its popularity, the song has generated many parodiesIn contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. Parody exists in all art media, including literature, music, and cinema. In ancient Greek literature, a parody was a type of poem that imitated an and songs sung to the same tune. One (c. 1964Events January January 1 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. January 3 Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President. January 5 In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Ort) went:
See also: European dragonSaint George versus the dragon Gustave Moreau, c. This small one has the look of a griffin or a wyvern. In European mythology, a dragon is a serpent-like legendary creature. The Latin word draco as in the constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek dra, list of dragonsFor a list of people with the dragon zodiac sign, see Dragon (zodiac), for the south east Asian lizard, see Komodo Dragon. Dragons in legends and mythology Aido-Hwedo the Rainbow Serpent of Dahoney mythology Apalala, a mythical river dragon who was conver
Puff the Magic Dragon is also American slangSlang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. Slang is a type of sociolect aimed at excluding certain people from the conversation. for the AC-47 gunship and AC-130 gunship airplanes in Vietnam, so-called because the 4 Gatling guns fired red tracers that gave it the appearance of breathing fire.
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