While listening to a favorite podcast of ours, Coverville, and researching and writing the first post of the day (which I have to go back and rewrite because it wasn’t saved – Bollocks!) we heard this great song.
It was actually a cover of “Puff the Magic Dragon” which was a television show in the late 1970’s but originally based off a song by Peter, Paul and Mary, (published in 1963) which I have also come to find out where actually based on a poem written in 1959 by a Cornell University student, Leonard Lipton, who based it off another poem by Ogden Nash, “Custard the Dragon”. So in other words, it is totally and wholeheartedly American now.
Peter, Paul & Mary Puff, The Magic Dragon Lyrics
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. ohPuff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on puffs gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name. oh!Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.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!Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.
Paff, der Zauberdrachen, lebte am Meer, auf einem Inselparadies, doch das ist schon lange her. Der kleine Jacky Papel liebte den Paff so sehr und ritt auf Paff vergnügt und froh oft über Land und Meer. Paff, der Zauberdrachen, lebte am Meer, auf einem Inselparadies, doch das ist schon lange her. Und lockte sie die Ferne, schwamm Paff bis nach Shanghai. Von seinem Rücken rief dann laut der Jacky froh: „Ahoi!“ Die Schiffe der Piraten, die nahmen gleich reißaus, und alle riefen: „Paff in Sicht, wir segeln schnell nach Haus´. Paff, der Zauberdrachen, lebte am Meer, auf einem Inselparadies, doch das ist schon lange her. Paff, der Zauberdrachen, lebte am Meer, [ From: http://www.elyrics.net ] auf einem Inselparadies, doch das ist schon lange her. Ein Drachen, der lebt ewig, doch kleine Boys, oh nein! Und so kam für Paff der Tag, und er war ganz allein. Jacky kam nie wieder, einsam lag Paff am Strand und hieb mit seinem Drachenschwanz hoch in die Luft den Sand. Er weinte Drachentränen, traurig war sein Blick, doch seine Tränen brachten ihm den Jacky nie zurück. Weil er mit Klein-Jacky den besten Freund verlor, schloss er sich in die Höhle ein und kam nie mehr hervor. Paff, der Zauberdrachen, lebte am Meer, auf einem Inselparadies, doch das ist schon lange her.
Pretty interesting stuff to learn on a Sunday afternoon.
livingtheamericandreamineurope.com 
I do like this song.