Over in Snopes, I was reading about the old chestnut that Peter, Paul & Mary’s “Puff the Magic Dragon” is a veiled attack on marijuana. Peter Yarrow insists it is not (and I’ll take his word for it), but there is mention that Yarrow demonstrated how drug references can be read into any song, including the Star-Spangled Banner. Snopes just doesn’t mention how the national anthem can be interpreted that way. For the life of me, I can’t see it. Can somebody explain to me what Yarrow was talking about?
Maybe it’s about a drug trip- where we see “broad stripes and bright stars” and “the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air.” And take a look at the lesser-known second verse.
“The mists of the deep?” “The gleam of the morning’s first beam?” Sounds like somebody’s trippin, man!
Hendrix covered it man. That’s all you need.