Peter, Paul and Mary Puff, the Magic Dragon (25th Anniversary Concert) UNLISTED
Peter, Paul and Mary perform Puff, the Magic Dragon live at their 25th anniversary concert in 1986. Now, two and a half decades later, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the group in the famed Greenwich Village, this joyous yet deeply moving live concert is being first released on DVD by Shout Factory. Get the DVD here: The lyrics for Puff, the Magic Dragon were based on a 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton, a 19yearold Cornell University student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled Custard the Dragon, about a realio, trulio little pet The lyrics tell a story of the ageless dragon Puff and his playmate Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood and leaves Puff alone and depressed. (Because of the line A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys, the lyrics may imply to some that Jackie Pa
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