Was Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds really a code for LSD? Was Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? (Did the Byrds Eight Miles High refer to an airplane ride or another type of flight? The biggest shock of them all was the realization that Puff the Magic Dragon was really a song about smoking marijuana.
He took a puff. He took a puff. He took a puff. It was easy to break it. And what was the song? It was Little Jackie Paper. Some have even suggested That the magic land of Hanah Lee was really Hanalei; a Hawaiian village renown for its potent brand of grass.
The song began his life as poem written by a 19 year old Cornell University student, Leonard Lipton. Yet the authors of the song claim that Puff The Magic Dragon was a song about the loss of innocence and a young boy who outgrew his childhood ways. He showed the poem to his friend Peter Yarrow who put the poem to a melody and added more lyrics. Yarrow went on to form the band Peter, Paul and Mary and his rendition of Puff went to Number Two on the charts.
It is a theory that it is a happy future. Despite the authors "many public statements to the contrary. Lipton claimed is poem was based on the Ogden Nash poem "Really-O, Truly-O Dragon". He wrote that "[It is about] the loss of innocence and having to face the adult world. dugs in a song for little kids ".
Peter Yarrow would later add the following comment: "When Puff was written I was too innocent to know bout drugs.
