Peter, Paul & Mary - Puff, the magic dragon

TRIBUTE TO PETER YARROW (Manhattan, New York, US, 31-5-1938)

Hoy cumple 79 años el cantante y compositor Peter Yarrow, quien, junto a Paul Stookey y Mary Travers, formó parte del trio folk Peter, Paul and Mary entre 1961 y 1970 en una primera etapa y entre 1978 y 2008 en una segunda. Lo recordamos con Puff, the magic dragon, canción con la que Yarrow musicó un poema de Leonard Lipton de 1959 y que, en las voces del terceto neoyorquino, alcanzó el nº 2 en Billboard a comienzos de 1963.

Puff, the magic dragon
(Lipton / Yarrow)

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in a land called Honnah Lee
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff, oh!
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in a land called Honnah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in a land called Honnah Lee
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail
Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came
Pirate ships would lower their flags 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 Honnah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in a land called Honnah 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 Honnah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in a land called Honnah Lee

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"Mon oncle" (1958) - Jacques Tati

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"Back street" (1961) - John Gavin & Susan Hayward

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"El Dorado" (1966) - John Wayne & Robert Mitchum

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"Les biches" (1968) -  Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant & Stéphane Audran

"Easy rider" (1969) - Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda & Jack Nicholson

"Airport" (1970) - Jacqueline Bisset & Dean Martin

"Carnal knowledge" (1971) - Jack Nicholson & Ann-Margret

"Un flic" (1972) - Catherine Deneuve & Alain Delon

"Sleeper" (1973) - Woody Allen & Diane Keaton

"Pane e cioccolata" (1974) - Ugo D'Alessio & Nino Manfredi

"Friday Foster" (1975) - Yaphet Kotto & Pam Grier

"Carrie" (1976) - Sissy Spacek

 "Valentino" (1977) - Rudolf Nureyev

"Death on the Nile" (1978) - Peter Ustinov

"Hair" (1979) - Don Dacus, Treat Williams, Annie Golden & Dorsey Wright

"The long riders" (1980) - Keith Carradine, David Carradine & Robert Carradine

"Body heat" (1981) - Kathleen Turner & William Hurt

"Victor /Victoria" (1982) - James Garner & Julie Andrews

"A nos amours" (1983) - Sandrine Bonnaire & Maurice Pialat

"Blood simple" (1984) - Frances McDormand

"Idi i smotri" - (1985) - Aleksey Kravchenko

"Peggy Sue got married" (1986) - Barry Miller, Will Shriner & Kathleen Turner

"Babettes gæstebud" (1987) - Stéphane Audran

"Mr. North" (1988) - Anthony Edwards & Virginia Madsen

"Do the right thing" (1989) - Danny Aiello & Spike Lee

"The hunt for Red October" (1990) - Sean Connery

"Guilty by suspicion" (1991) - Robert De Niro

"The last of the Mohicans" (1992) - Daniel Day-Lewis

"The remains of the day" (1993) - Emma Thompson & Anthony Hopkins

"Four weddings and a funeral" (1984) - Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, Charlotte Coleman, John Hannah & Hugh Grant

 "To die for" (1995) - Nicole Kidman

"Last dance" (1996) - Sharon Stone

"Absolute power" (1997) - Ed Harris & Clint Eastwood

"Out of sight" (1998) - George Clooney

"Fight Club" (1999) - Brad Pitt & Edward Norton

"What women want" (2000) - Helen Hunt & Mel Gibson

"Mulholland Drive" (2001) - Naomi Watts & Laura Harring

"About Schmidt" (2002) - Jack Nicholson

 "Intolerable cruelty" (2003) - Catherine Zeta-Jones & George Clooney

"Alexander" (2004) - Angelina Jolie, Colin Farrell & Val Kilmer

"The constant gardener" (2005) - Rachel Weisz & Ralph Fiennes