Puff The Magic Dragon

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From: asaltevo@athena.mit.edu (Andrew S Altevogt)

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Subject: CRD: Puff the Magic Dragon

Date: 21 Nov 1993 22:49:26 GMT

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Hey this was what was posted about a week or two ago. Enjoy.

Puff (The Magic Dragon)

Words and Music by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton, 1963.

(my Peter Paul & Mary songbook has this in Bb; I've transposed to C to

make it easier to play. Purists can, of course, reverse the process.)

Puff, the magic drag-on lived by the sea And frol-icked in the

au-tumn mist in a land called Ho-nah-Lee-, Lit-tle Jack-ie Pa-per

loved that rascal Puff And brought him strings and

sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Oh!

Refrain:

Puff, the magic drag-on lived by the sea And frol-icked in the

au-tumn mist in a land called Ho-nah-Lee-,

Puff, the magic drag-on lived by the sea And frol-icked in the

au-tumn mist in a land called Ho-nah-Lee. -

^

last time to Coda

(C) Em F C

1. - To- get-her they would trav-el on a boat with bil-lowed sail,-

2. - A drag-on lives for-ev-er but not so lit - tle boys,-

3. - His head was bent in sor-row green scales fell like rain,-

1. Jack-ie kept a look-out perched on Puff's gi-gan-tic tail,

2. Paint-ed wings and gi-ant rings make way for oth-er toys,

3. Puff no long-er went to play a - long the cher-ry lane, With-

1. No-ble kings and princ-es would bow when-e'er they came,

2. One grey night it hap-pened, Jack-ie Pa-per came no more And

3. out his life-long friend Puff could not be brave So

1. Pi-rate ships would low'r their flag when Puff roared out his name. Oh!

2. Puff that might-y drag-on, he ceased his fear-less roar. Oh!

3. Puff that might-y drag-on, sad - ly slipped in-to his cave. Oh!

Coda: land called Ho - nah - Lee.