{"id":810,"date":"2021-05-10T04:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=810"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:46:29","slug":"puff-the-magic-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/puff-the-magic-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Puff the Magic Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/code>Peter, Paul & Mary songbook has this in Bb; I’ve transposed to C to make it easier to play. Purists can, of course, reverse the process.) <\/span><\/code><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 1] - - - - - <\/span>[F] Puff, the magic [Am] dragon [A#] lived by the [F] sea  And [A#] frolicked in the <\/span><\/span>[F] autumn [Dm] mist in a [G7] land called Honah- [C7] -Lee,  [F] Little Jackie [Am] Paper <\/span><\/span>[A#] loved that rascal [F] Puff   And [A#] brought him strings and <\/span><\/span>[F] sealing [Dm] wax and [G7] other [C7] fancy [F] stuff. [C7] Oh! \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/span>[Verse 2] - - - - - <\/span>To- [F] -get-her they would [Am] trav-el on a [A#] boat  with  bil-lowed  [F] sail.   <\/span><\/span><\/span>[A#] Jackie kept a [F] lookout [Dm] perched on [G] Puff\u2019s gigantic [C] tail.  <\/span>[F] Noble kings and [Am] princes would [A#] bow whenever they [F] came.   <\/span>[A#] Pirate ships would [F] lower their [Dm] flags when [G] Puff roared [C] out his [F] name. oh!\r\n<\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>  - - - - - [F] Puff, the magic [Am] dragon [A#] lived by the [F] sea And [A#] frolicked in the <\/span>[F] autumn [Dm] mist in a [G7] land called Honah- [C7] -Lee, <\/span>[F] Puff, the magic [Am] dragon [A#] lived by the [F] sea And [A#] frolicked in the <\/span><\/span>[F] autumn [Dm] mist in a [G7] land called [C7] Honah- [F] -Lee.<\/span> <\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Verse 3] - - - - - <\/span>A [F] dragon lives [Am] forever but [A#] not so little [F] boys. <\/span>[A#] <\/span><\/span>Painted wings and [F] giant [Dm] rings make [G] way for other [C] toys.    <\/span>[F] One grey night it [Am] happened, [A#] Jackie Paper [F] came no more, a<\/span>nd [A#] Puff that mighty [F] dragon, [Dm] he [G] ceased his [C] fearless [F] roar [C]  Oh\r\n\r\n             TAP SCROLL DOWN BUTTON HERE\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n[Verse 4] - - - - -   <\/span>His [F] head was bent in [Am] sorrow, [A#] green scales fell like [F] rain.   <\/span>[A#] Puff no longer [F] went to [Dm] play [G] along the cherry [C] lane.   <\/span>With- [F] -out his life-long [Am] friend, [A#] Puff could not be [F] brave;    <\/span>So [A#] Puff that mighty [F] dragon [Dm] sadly [G] slipped in- [C] -to his [F] cave. [C] \r\n<\/span>\r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - - [F] Puff, the magic [Am] dragon [A#] lived by the [F] sea And [A#] frolicked in the [F] autumn [Dm] mist in a [G7] land called Honah- [C7] -Lee, [F] Puff, the magic [Am] dragon [A#] lived by the [F] sea And [A#] frolicked in the [F] autumn [Dm] mist in a [G7] land called [C7] Honah- [F] -Lee.  [A#] [F]<\/span> <\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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Peter, Paul & Mary songbook has this in Bb; I’ve transposed to C to make it easier to play. Purists can, of course, reverse the process.) [Verse 1] – – – – – [F] Puff, the magic [Am] dragon [A#] lived by the [F] sea And [A#] frolicked in the … CLICK TO VIEW SONGPuff the Magic Dragon<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,95,133,126,265,116,117,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30230,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/30230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}