From uunet!dtix!mimsy!tms Fri Aug 28 17:33:32 PDT 1992 Article: 1893 of alt.guitar.tab Path: nevada.edu!uunet!dtix!mimsy!tms From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab Subject: Crd: Puff (The Magic Dragon) Summary: The DEFINTATIVE "Puff"! Message-ID: <59938@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 27 Aug 92 20:37:51 GMT References: <92234.124845ICCEK@ASUACAD.BITNET> <6754@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: The Reality Liberation Front (pixels to the people!) Lines: 75 You can be a big hit with your young kid/nephew/niece/cousin/ friend's kid/complete stranger's kid with this one... Puff (The Magic Dragon) Words and Music by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton, 1963. (my 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:

^CPuff, the magic ^Emdrag-on ^Flived by the ^Csea And ^Ffrol-icked in the ^Cau-tumn m^Amist in a ^D7land called Ho-nah-Le^G7e-, ^CLit-tle Jack-ie ^EmPa-per

^Floved that rascal ^CPuff And ^Fbrought him strings and ^Csealing ^Amwax and ^D7other ^G7fancy ^Cstuff. ^G7Oh!

Refrain:

^CPuff, the magic ^Emdrag-on ^Flived by the ^Csea And ^Ffrol-icked in the ^Cau-tumn m^Amist in a ^D7land called Ho-nah-Le^G7e-,

^CPuff, the magic ^Emdrag-on ^Flived by the ^Csea And ^Ffrol-icked in the ^Cau-tumn m^Amist in a ^D7land called ^G7Ho-nah-^CLee. - ^ last time to Coda

Verse: (C) Em F C 1. - To- get-her they would trav-el on a boat with bil-lowed sail,- 2. - A drag-on lives for-ev-er but not so lit - tle boys,- 3. - His head was bent in sor-row green scales fell like rain,-

1. ^FJack-ie kept a ^Clook-out ^Am7perched on ^D7Puff's gi-gan-tic ^G7tail, 2. Paint-ed wings and gi-ant rings make way for oth-er toys, 3. Puff no long-er went to play a - long the cher-ry lane, With-

1. ^CNo-ble kings and ^Emprinc-es would ^Fbow when-e'er they ^Ccame, 2. One grey night it hap-pened, Jack-ie Pa-per came no more And 3. out his life-long friend Puff could not be brave So

1. ^FPi-rate ships would ^Clow'r their ^Am7flag when ^D7Puff roared ^G7out his ^Cname. ^G7Oh! 2. Puff that might-y drag-on, he ceased his fear-less roar. Oh! 3. Puff that might-y drag-on, sad - ly slipped in-to his cave. Oh!

Coda: ^D7land called ^G7Ho - nah - ^CLe^Fe.^C ^G7 ^C

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