Puff, the magic dragon
Peter Yarrow, Leonard Lipton, 1962· Songs Well-Known in America · p.259
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Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
A dragon lives for-ever but not so little boys**
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
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And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gi -- gantic tail,
Painted wings and giant’s rings made way for other toys.
Puff no longer went to play a-long the cherry lane.
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Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff,
Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came,
One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
With-out his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave,
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and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Oh!
Pirate ships would lower their flag when Puff roared out his name. Oh!
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped in-to his cave. Oh!
Chorus: (No Chorus after 3rd verse)
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Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
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And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
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Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
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And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.
* Based on a poem written by Leonard Lipton in 1958 (www.wikipedia.org)
** Now sung by Peter Yarrow as “girls and boys” rather than “little boys”.