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'Puff, the Magic Dragon' was released as a song in 1962 by Peter, Paul and Mary.

Other Dragon Stone Pages: Fictional Dragon List - Puff

The Song...

Chorus:
Puff, the magic dragon
Lived by the sea,
And frolicked in the autumn mist
In a land called Honah Lee.

Little Jackie Paper
Loved that rascal Puff,
And brought him strings and sealing wax
And other fancy stuff. Oh!

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Together they would travel
On a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched
On Puff's gigantic tail.

Noble kings and princes
Would bow when 'ere they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flag
When Puff roared out his name. Oh!

Chorus

A dragon lives forever
But not so little boys.
Painted wings and giant rings
Make way for other toys.

One grey night it happened,
Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon,
He ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow,
Green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play
Along the cherry lane.

Without his life-long friend,
Puff could not be brave,
So Puff that mighty dragon
Sadly slipped into his cave. Oh...

Chorus