Originally Posted by Satchmo8101

The song is actually about losing ones childhood innocence. The song is based on a poem by Leonard Lipton. Who based his poem on a rhyme called, Really-O Truly-O Dragon.

Lipton went to college with Peter Yarrow. Yarrow found the poem that Lipton typed out on Yarrow's typerwriter and forgot about. Yarrow proceeded to add a few lyrics and write a melody for it. Years later the song became a hit, which Lipton gets half the money to this day from all the royalties.

But what you most likely are bringing up is the false urban legend that it was about marijuana.


The above bit of information is the type of things you learn when you have kids that ask a lot of questions.