Puff the Magic Dragon

[Dan Wilson]

Found this the other day and though maybe some of you old gunboat fossils would like it.

Dan

Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of Cam Rahn Bon

Came to fly the evening skies

In a land called Vietnam

Puff the Magic Dragon, came across the sea

To write his name in guns of flame

In the heart of hostile SEA

When the grunts are in trouble

And Charlie\'s all around

The thoughts may pry into the sky

Beneath the fires on the ground

The VC\'s mortal terror, starts when many cries

And the Dragon\'s breath of sudden death

Comes screaming from the sky

Yes, Puff will still be flying

From I Corps down to Four

Till Charlie\'s gone and the evening comes

It\'s like the year before

But I\'ll remember always, the ground troops grateful cry

When fire is beamed and Charlie screamed

At the Dragon in the sky

Now Dragons live forever and Puff is just the same

The Gooney Bird will still be heard when Grandpa is my name

It will have to roam the skies with friends..not with me

Fpor I\'m going home, no more to roam

In a land across the sea

Puff the Magic Dragon, a bird of Cam Rahn Bon

Came to fly the evening skies

In a land called Vietnam

Puff the Magic Dragon, came across the sea

To write his name in guns of flame

In the heart of hostile SEA

[mongo]

Not an old gunboat fossil but, I still like it!

[SamMcGowan]

I assume you know that Puff the Magic Dragon was an AC-47, not a C-130? They started calling them that because of the song. We used to see them working over the mountains just west of Cam Ranh at night - of course we saw the damn things working at all of the other bases every night on night cargo missions!