[parsifal]

I don't know. A lot of old songs are about other stuff. For example, Puff The Magic Dragon and Last Dance With Mary Jane are about marijuana. "Follow the Drinking Gourd" was about the underground railroad and the 'drinking gourd' was the Big Dipper. parsy, interpreter of song.

[vetvetdoug]

Take me Back to Tulsa

Black man plant the cotton,
White man get de money

Love them old Bob Wills Racist songs!

[cva66snipe]

don't know. A lot of old songs are about other stuff. For example, Puff The Magic Dragon and Last Dance With Mary Jane are about marijuana

Puff was probably one of the most innocent songs written in the early 1960's. While I don't agree with their politics I do like the music of P,P,&M. Here's the real story on Puff. Peter Yarrow was attending Brown I think it was and stopped by a friends apartment for lunch after coming from the library and studying Grimness fairtales. The friend {Paul Stookey I believe} wasn't there and Peter typed out a song that had came to his mind about a young boy, his imaginary friend and the boys loss of childhood innocence through growing up. Pot was not all that popular during that era 1960 I think. Peter found the poem on his typewriter and later a song was born. This was something I read from an interview of Peter Yarrow. The Wedding Song by Paul has an interesting twist as well. Notice it is Public Domain? He refused to profit from the song.