Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of Living Lies (1979)

[Music] up the m magic dragon lived by the sea and frol in the Autumn m in a on lunch time homework my favorite arithmetic ketchup goes well with lower mathematics a bite of geography Fe with [Music] mustard and I'll wash it down with some geometry juice don't you think it's odd that I a dragon should eat homework for lunch of course it's odd for it never happened it was a falsehood a Canard a prevarication oh why beat about the bush it was a silly lie told by a little girl named Sandy this Dragon he stole my homework and he took it under a tree and and ate it with ketchup and mustard and that's why I don't have any to show you Sandy was unique for she had an imagination as magical as my smoke rings fantastic stories and songs would bubble from her brain Bounce from her mouth and Delight the world about her then one day something in sy's life changed from that point on she told many foolish lies all day long to everyone for any reason she lied to her father on weekends gee Sandy next Wednesday is a special day for you my birthday that's right honey and what do you want for your birthday bicycle or a microscope nothing like that Dad I want to have you and Mom both of you take me to um Mount Everest right to the top H they've got special snow there that'll cure my freckles you don't have any freckles sure I do they're invisible and at home she sometimes lied to her mother Sandy did you wash the dishes as you promised no Mom you see this great scientist he just announced that washing dishes makes the germs grow and if you want to stay healthy odd to keep the dishes dirty and she also lied to her friends at school strike three you're out out haven't you heard Congress just passed the law you get four strikes now you're not only out you're bitched oh gee and soon Sandy had lost all of her friends except for one and this famous impressario said he going to make me the star of the Russian ballet you believe me don't you m anything I say m want to chase your ball I know Mom said we should only play outside but um she changed her mind fetch PL lamp it was mugs I tried to stop him but he jumped around and knocked the lamp oh mugs I'm sorry but you're just too big to keep in town we'll have to give you back to Aunt Clara and Sandy you can see mugs during the summer honey you wait and see I'm going to call the Marines to get you back you believe me don't you m you believe anything Sandy the most confusing confounding bundle of contradictions ever to need a magic dragon to help her I I had to take her on a long magic Journey you'll see hey I than you upon did you just see a dragon Float by in a balloon sure you ah what a relief for a moment I thought you were imagining me who are you don't you remember me I me your homework but that was just a story I made you up mhm if you're just one of my fibs I can make you go away go away am I still here uhhuh well then I suppose I'm not just one of your fibs I got to go why I've gotten um an important appointment with the queen of France you have well you got all the time in the world for appointments how do you know my magic time piece I've stopped the clock Twix the tick and the top we can go anywhere do anything and when we return not one second will be lost go away no way I'm warning you you better rent for it because the there's this big earthquake coming and the ground will just swallow us up if you say so what's that your earthquake ASU beyond the rainbows time and space our friends are falling through to a tunnel in a land beyond the clouds of pink and blue where are we um a long way from your house I'm sure I don't want to go back there anyway why not um cuz my house is broken in two pieces all the pipes are scooting and the wire are going Fizz good gracious Fizz you say puff I wish I knew where we were I believe that this rather dismal archipelago is the land of the living lies the land of the living lies where lives do go when ye World finds them out sounds great where you don't have to tell the truth and the folks really appreciate a good lie look a little boy wolf wolf a wolf Beware of the wolf wolf what's wrong with him can't he see you're a dragon must be the boy who cried wolf all the famous Liars live here and just look who's waiting to welcome us to the land of the living lies Baron Munch Housen himself the world's greatest liar welcome fellow liar seems like a wonderful place sir how dare you call it wonderful what's wrong with wonderful it's an insult in this land everyone lies if you say it's wonderful you must believe it's terrible it is it's a terrible place it's awful yeah oh that's better enjoy your stay here feel free to wander hither and Y the climate is beautiful it never rains here I want to get out of here oh why don't you ask The Baron's permission and see what happens uh-uh he's the kind you have to trick leave everything to me bar much in see I'm this great brain surge and this king is very sick and I'm the only one who can put the Band-Aid on his brain so I have to leave okay oh you may leave anytime you wish really you mean that now now is not any time now is a specific time find a time that is not specific and you may be on your way [Music] oh puff you've met the master those were mean lies he's awful true true true but you tried to trick him first oh look that is the famous purple cow that no one has ever seen and the Pink Elephant that some see too often who's that killroy who always was there and never was anywhere and that magician's rabbit who seems to but never does live in a hat HFF those are silly lies no those are fanciful eyeses and harmless fantasies okay and fun I mean I'm part fantasy you mean that part is okay mhm a puff how can you tell the difference between a real lie and a fantasy kind of one well a fanciful lie is hard to explain it starts in your heart and Bubbles your brain it Wiggles your ears and the way it goes then it comes right back and tickles your toes it makes you feel kind of song and Dancy it's more than a lie it's a wonderful fancy when a dragon becomes a birthday cake and a little girl a tree when the sky becomes a parachute and the earth a cup of tea when the upside down is really really up and you set the flowers free then is part of all the wonderment of what the world can be when an ice is a monument and a glass holds all the sea when the snowflake becomes a jungle gy and the moons a tiny be when the Inside Out is really and the unor is of all the Wonder of what the world can be we can see the world as it really is all build a F to see we can dream a dream through a puff of smoke and someday it might be it might be when the giant becomes a jelly bean and a sword turns into snail when a church mouse becomes a chimpanzee and a puddle turns into a pale when the tippy tippy to is at the B of it all and the kites are all set free it's part of all the Wonder of what the world can be oh it's part of all the wonder what the world can be please don't eat the flowers please don't pick the apples I don't see any apples or flowers I'm a flower I'm a pretty petunia it's very confusing oh yes it's just terrible take me away from here pick me pick me please a poor little thing we'll take care of you thief thief oh she's picking the apples but you're she's an apple we patunas know apples from pumpkins that's the silliest thing I ever heard you're eating me you're eating the flowers I was just talking help police police [Music] police aha picking apples eating flowers eh but officer you can't do that I didn't you're under arrest you're just a little wooden boy a marionette nonsense I'm a police officer puff noo where else would he live this way send her to the caverns to the caverns oh puff we're just getting in deeper and [Music] deeper this looks like a courtroom I guess you're on trial and here comes the jury all liars oh yes first comes the social lie I'd love to come to your birthday party but I have a bad cold good then the tall tail we grow melons so big how big are they well we can use the shells for swimming pools oops who is this bubblegum cures warts the meaningless lie next The Vicious fly Tommy wears t-shirt with torn Tails pass it [Applause] on pu I'm really scared o Here Comes The Judge Rebel slman a monsterous lie raise your left hand who's he a BFF a barefaced lie you promise not to tell the truth the half truth and everything but the truth SP little girl isn't it true you zip the zapper when you snip the snow I can't understand him because he's the prosecuting attorney a genuine Flim Flam and furthermore you frightened the flip by frying the Frisbee and therefore I put the case that all the while the fluster flittered your velocipede matriculated did it you I don't know she admits ity guilty guilty guilty Sandy guilty Sandy no go away I didn't do it he did he confessed he's the one who's guilty he did it oh Sandy you can't mean that you did you know you did guilty dragon guil dragon guilty Dragon guilty Dragon gu Dragon guilty Dragon a dragon's magic lasts as long as children's love is there Puff's Dragon Eyes are filled with tears oh Sandy show us you still [Music] care they said I could see one last time well here I am you wait and see I'm going to call the Marines and set you free do your magic and get us out of here the way you did before with the earthquake and all I again my magic is gone until you tell the whole truth I'm sorry and that's the truth sh sh sh you live here now I don't want to live I want to go home really yeah but I can't I told you about my house oh yes it's all broken with squirting water pipes it's not broken that way why are they growling that was an important truth they don't like it at all important finish what you started to tell me please how is your house broken I I can't not now some other time Sandy if you don't tell the truth now this is the last time I'll ever be able to see you well how is it broken child is my folks mom lives in one place and Dad another stor is it because of what happened to your mom and dad that you're telling these lies yeah lies are better than the truth when the truth is it was all my fault little girl you can't really believe that it's true I thought about it a lot I thought and thought and finally I figured it out I caused it to [Laughter] happen why would they happy again because you just St the Whopper I didn't lie to you not to me dear to yourself you told the worst kind of a lie there is maybe the LIE of self deception if you believe that you'll be here forever but I did it my folks they're all smashed up they're not smashed broken people can't show love love they still love you don't they and they couldn't love me if they were broken and they wouldn't if I was the one who broke them but they do and that's the truth and what else is the truth the truth is it wasn't my fault at all and I feel so good now a girl just say the words that you've got to say and the walls come a tumbling down just realize that you're really okay and the the walls come a tumbling down you don't have to try to fool the world anymore and the walls come a tumbling down H now I know what we came here for the walls dou and down sing the truth say what is real and the walls going tumble down now I know how good that freedom feel and the walls com tumbling down just look at those lies to built that wall and the walls come tumbling down just yell out the truth and they're bound to fall and the walls come tumbling down eyes are good you have nothing to fear and the walls come tumbling down you don't scare me cuz I don't belong here and the walls comeing down sing out the truth what is real and the walls come tumbling down now we know how good that freedom walls T down Shar yalls tbling down Gribble yourself we're leaving here and the walls tumbling down take off your Mas who you are and the world come T down dream your dream and wish on theall down [Music] another earthquake nope a truth Quake wait a minute let me it works again [Music] [Applause] jump buff what happened to the land of the living lies the truth set us free [Laughter] and now now I'm a start time a cranking again and you have got to get home will you be there when time starts up again no Sandy but you can think me up or write me down and I certainly hope you do there's no need to waste that wonderful imagination of yours on a lot of silly lies H thank you puff puff I'm going to miss you well there'll be other friends to take my place and now to start alas the magic clock and move once more from tick to talk M you came home HFF made it happen [Music] mom I told a lie mugs didn't break the lamp I did and that's the truth thank you Sandy I'll get it Dad happy birthday Sandy a microscope that is what I really [Music] wanted come on mugs let's go do those dishes once upon a time there was a magic dragon and he just loved to eat homework arithmetic ketchup goes well with low [Music] mathematics that book she's writing is sure to be a classic n