Claim: The Peter, Paul & Mary tune "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a coded song about marijuana.No way!!! That is what people thought it was about?
"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is not about marijuana, or any other type of drug. It is what its writers have always claimed it to be: a song about the innocence of childhood lost.
The poem that formed the basis of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was written Puff this! in 1959 by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash rhyme about a "Really-O Truly-O Dragon,"
I always thought it was about this. Great seating. Cool windows. Makes pretty pictures at night.
More important, a toy for John to play with. Better res here.
Hat tip The Corner.