Frank
2988 posts
Oct 13, 2013
4:09 AM
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100 top requested songs
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Puff, the mag-ic drag-on,
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lived by the sea
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and frol-icked in the au-tumn mist
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in a land called Ho-nah-lee.
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Lit-tle Jack-ie Pa-per
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loved that ras-cal Puff,
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and brought him strings and seal-ing wax
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and oth-er fan-cy stuff.
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Oh! Puff, the mag-ic drag-on
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lived by the sea
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and frol-icked in the au-tumn mist
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in a land called Ho-nah-lee.
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Puff, the mag-ic drag-on, lived by the sea
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And frol-icked in the au-tumn mist
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in a land called Ho-nah-lee.
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Sherwin
88 posts
Oct 13, 2013
9:04 PM
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Hiya Frank
Are we allowed to talk about, make reference to drugs on this forum?
Just wondering.........you know, a song like that one .......
Sherwin
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joe
111 posts
Oct 13, 2013
9:30 PM
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i think it more likely that there is some shading of reality in the direction of urban myth
j.
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Frank
3006 posts
Oct 14, 2013
9:32 AM
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You ever get this one requested :)
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Some peo-ple say a man is made out of mud
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A poor man's made out of mus-cle and blood
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Mus-cle and blood and skin and bones,
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A mi-nd that's weak
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and a back that's strong,
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You load six-teen tons
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and what do you get?
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An-other day old-er and deep-er in debt
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Saint Pe-ter, don't you call me
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'cause I can't go
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I o-we my soul to the com-pa-ny store.
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Shaganappi
46 posts
Oct 14, 2013
11:15 AM
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Am amazed at how little tab is useful when you don't know the rhythm (don't know the tune). I have forgotten a lot of those old straight harp chestnuts and usually it is too much trouble to find notation (not that I can read it fluently anyway) or listen to it on YouTube or somewhere.
The other thing that strikes me is that the top 100 is essentially comprised of memory lane oldies. That the majority of searches indicate a severe lack of sophistication. Maybe this shows that JP and similar have a lucrative market? And also the above vid demonstrates, most anything can be made better.
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rbeetsme
1393 posts
Oct 14, 2013
11:53 AM
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As for Puff. I asked Paul Stookey about the allusion to drugs. He said it was all untrue, never thought of drugs while writing it. He preferred to keep it a kids tune. Nice guy, by the way.
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STME58
556 posts
Oct 14, 2013
12:13 PM
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Performance where myth is debunked by writer
I have loved this song since I was young. It has taken on a greater significance as I have just watched my boys, now 12 and 14, relegate Puff to his cave.
This is a song that will frequently get a comment from a passerby if I an siting in public playing.
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Aussiesucker
1341 posts
Oct 14, 2013
1:36 PM
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Doing my little bit for 'Harmonica Country'. High Noon best ever Western movie? Pics are totally unrelated and are of different parts of Oz.
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