Puff the Magic Dragon and the Loss of Childhood Innocence

Lets talk about Puff the Magic Dragon, which is an Iconic childrens story song that was recorded and made popular by Peter Paul and Mary a folk music act from the sixties and seventies. The song started off as most songs do as a piece of Poetry, the Poem Puff the Magic Dragon was written by Brooklyn native Leonard Lipton who was 19 at the time and an engineering student at Cornell. Now Lipton offers us a little deeper insight into what inspired him to write the poem, and it happened to be another Poem entitled “A Tale of Custard the Dragon” written by Ogden Nash in 1936. Peter Yarrow turned into a song in 1958 and Peter Paul and Marry recorded it in 1963 and it became a hit song of the time and generations to come. Of course, the one question that inevitably arises in every conversation about the song would be Is Puff the Magic Dragon about Drugs? Both Leonard Lipton and Peter Paul and Mary have stated on record that the song is not about drugs. Peter Paul and