[Newspoetry] "puff the magic dragon"

[Jay Morris]

From: "Editor-Within-Chief" <futrelle at shout.net:
> From the NYT:
>
> "U.S. military spokesman Major Bryan Hilferty told reporters an
AC-130
> gunship, known as ``Puff the Magic Dragon'' because of its
thunderous
> firepower, had destroyed at least one al Qaeda bunker complex with
rebels
> in it now that the weather had lifted."
>
> Anyone want to rewrite the song "Puff the Magic Dragon" to be about
this
> event and "Operation Anaconda"?


This isn't quite about Operation Anaconda, but it has a happier
ending.
jay


Puff, the magic dragon, lived on the seas,
He frolicked in the Middle East, and killed the Afghanis.
Little Georgie Dubya loved that rascal Puff,
And bought him all the latest toys and other fancy stuff, oh

Puff, the magic dragon, lived on the seas
He frolicked in the Middle East, and killed the Afghanis.
Puff, the magic dragon, lived on the seas
He frolicked in the Middle East, and killed the Afghanis.

Together they would travel, and beat folks up for oil,
Georgie had a goal to warm the oceans to a boil.
Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came
And Georgie would confuse them, and mangle all their names.

CHORUS

A tyrant's term's forever, but not so president,
And sometimes when the ballot's clear, the votes lie where they're
meant.
One grey night it happened, and Georgie ruled no more,
And Puff returned from service to sit on the boathouse floor.

His metal was recycled, his seats were torn apart,
And all of Puffy's gauges were sold to France as art.
The new pres. took a mandate from the people of her land,
And Puff, the magic dragon was never seen again, oh

CHORUS