New Puff the Magic Dragon interpretation released by The Octopus's Garden
November 20, 2005 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
Popular music website The Octopus’s Garden, hosted by RareException.com(http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Garden.php), has released a wonderful review of the lyrics to the Peter, Paul, and Mary hit Puff the Magic Dragon(http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Puff/Dragon.php). Written as a children's song by Peter Yarrow in 1958, interpreted from a Poem written by a friend, the song’s child like lyrics have been suggested to infer drug references. The Octopus’s Garden takes its usual critical yet light hearted look at the lyrics to explain what the group likely meant and how it could be interpreted. Also released by The Garden, a new message board (http://www.rareexception.com/bb/) to keep music's strangest rumors and myths flowing from the minds of the community.