Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic Dragon ... the lyric “by the sea” was speculated ...
"It is an imbecilic reality that we just have to live with now," he said at the time, of the other meaning behind Puff, the Magic Dragon. "It won't stop me from singing it and asking children to ...