Artist:	Peter, Paul & Mary
Song:	Puff (The Magic Dragon)
Album:	Best Of Peter Paul & Mary
Year:	1970

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Though they were dismissed by folk purists at the time for being too pop, Peter, Paul and Mary did more than anyone else to bring folk music into...
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Best Of Peter Paul & Mary

Carry It On

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Carolyn Hester
Gordon Lightfoot
Ian & Sylvia

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Bob Dylan
Cisco Houston
Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

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America (Rock)
Bread
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KarenMagill | MEMORY FROM 2008

Emotions

LOCATION: Parents' apartment , Vancouver

YEAR: 2008

TAGS: regret, Tears, ridiculous, sadness

PUBLISHED: March 23, 2008

One of the worst things I find about having multiple sclerosis is how emotional I can be. At least for me that is one of the worst things.

Recently I was over visiting my parents and there was an Irish Rovers CD playing. The song ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ came on and I was singing lightly to it. When the verse came up that ‘dragons live forever but not so little boys’ I started to sniffle. By the time the stanza was finished I was quite choked up. I got saddened by a little boy growing older and no longer playing with a mythical creature. I always said I was weird!

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COMMENTS (5)

Janine B said: Dragons are not mythical just magical.If they are my parents did not tell me! Long live the magic. (3/23/2008)

KarenMagill replied to Janine B's comment:

Dragons are not mythical just magical.If they are my parents did not tell...

Good point Janine. I stand corrected. (3/23/2008)

alynn said: I have the same reaction to this song for different reasons--I cry for our losted innocence (3/24/2008)

AGBlade2008 said: this is a nice memory. (3/24/2008)

Janine B said: ps. you are not weird. (3/25/2008)

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