(January 8, 2025 at 1:29 am)AFTT47 Wrote:(January 7, 2025 at 9:46 pm)Silver Wrote: Puff, the Magic Dragon, sounds like a euphemism for smoking pot.
I think that's a case of seeing something that is not there. The song is about the loss of childhood innocence which is just the kind of thing folk songs address.
The child molestation thing is definitely darker. He seemed repented and even Jimmy Carter gave him a pardon. That doesn't excuse him but we are all imperfect. I'm willing to give him a pass. Not that I am qualified as a moral arbiter. It's just my gut feeling that this was a guy who's slate was relatively clean at the end. He wasn't a saint but few if any of us are.
According to sources, he got a handy from a 14 year old groupie. He was charged with and convicted of ‘taking improper liberties’. He was lucky not to be charged with statutory rape.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
