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Recently, spell discussing composition titles with a crony , the singing of "Puff the Magic Dragon" came up. I innocently recalled as a boylike miss wanting to stifle that Jackie Paper for going Puff sad and unsocial in his dark, dismal grotto. My reminiscing friend, sympathetically laughed at my analysis and exalted, that the nursery rhyme wasn't around the gone astray simplicity of a child at all. She explained it was in the region of smoking marihuana and getting flooding from linctus use. That intrigued my excitement to actually outward show up the precedent of my favorite, adolescence musical composition.

Having e'er thought the singing were scrivened by Peter, Paul and Mary I was bewildered to swot that they were primitively based on a 1959 literary composition textual by Leonard Lipton. He was a 19 time period old Cornell University educatee at the incident. Only after that was the nursery rhyme passed on to Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) who other much words and music to manufacture a nursery rhyme.

Looking into more than a few of the 1960's alleged remedy references, I unconcealed Jackie Paper was well thought out by every medication debonair entrepreneurs, as snaky rolling papers. "Autumn mist" was taken as marihuana smoke and the "Land of Hanah Lee" was in citation to a Hawaiian Island called Hanalei, that was set for it's immense magnitude of marihuana plant life. "Puff was the smoking of a pooled. "Cherry" was thoughtful the hot ember of a marihuana cigarette, and "Lane" was the cigarettes length.

I run to reflect the resourceful communicator of the nursery rhyme Leonard Lipton. He equivalently stood by his innovative assertion that the literary composition he wrote vertebrae in 1959 at the age of 19 was indeed a verse form of nowhere to be found immaturity. Peter, Paul and Mary have in agreement with Mr. Lipton that this is a child's rhyme. They likewise have conveyed the certainty that they could take the "Star Spangle Banner" in specified a way that it too, could be construed as a medication similar song, if they chose.

After briefly researching my immaturity favorite, I have locomote to my own conclusions. I feel that once 19 yr old Leonard Lipton eldest wrote his poem, he was a small man entering a stressful, college worldwide and was two-faced with the apprehension that he was no long a teenager.

I know profound in my friends heart that she believes "Puff the Magic Dragon" is a 1960's remedy ode. That is remarkably sad to me. She has without doubt missed one of the supreme mystical, childhood experiences that so copious of us felt, spell listening to that magic chant.

I may be disillusioned, but I'd instead imagine for the residual of my life that the label "Puff" was a selected linguistic unit for a wonderful, make-believe supporter. And the citation of "autumn mist" was merely in reference to a glistening, dew suffused grazing land. I waste to sense that unproven archosaurian reptile scales is a equivalent word for pills appurtenances. Which in swivel has target-hunting me set to Cherry Lane, wherever I will e'er be convinced that, "Little Jackie Paper, did be mad about that scamp Puff!"