Where have all the flowers gone
Long time passing, where have all the flowers gone
Long time ago, where have all the flowers gone
Girls have picked them every one, when will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone
Long time passing Where have all the young girls gone
Long time ago Where have all the young girls gone
Taken husbands every one When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing Where have all the young men gone
Long time ago Where have all the young men gone
Gone for soldiers every one When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone
Long time passing Where have all the soldiers gone
Long time ago Where have all the soldiers gone
Gone to graveyards every one When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone
Long time passing Where have all the graveyards gone
Long time ago Where have all the graveyards gone
Covered with flowers every one When will we ever learn
When will we ever learn?...
Long time passing, where have all the flowers gone
Long time ago, where have all the flowers gone
Girls have picked them every one, when will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone
Long time passing Where have all the young girls gone
Long time ago Where have all the young girls gone
Taken husbands every one When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing Where have all the young men gone
Long time ago Where have all the young men gone
Gone for soldiers every one When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone
Long time passing Where have all the soldiers gone
Long time ago Where have all the soldiers gone
Gone to graveyards every one When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone
Long time passing Where have all the graveyards gone
Long time ago Where have all the graveyards gone
Covered with flowers every one When will we ever learn
When will we ever learn?...
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GenreCountry
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Duration00:04:05
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Copyright ©Concord Music Publishing
WriterPeter Seeger
Lyrics licensed byLyricFind
AddedJune 25th, 2007
Last updatedMarch 5th, 2022
About"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a modern folk-style song. The melody and the first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955 and published in Sing Out! magazine. Additional verses were added by Joe Hickerson in May 1960, who turned it into a circular song. Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the ubi sunt (Where are those who were before us?)tradition. In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs".
The 1964 release of the song as a Columbia Records 45 single, 13-33088, by Pete Seeger was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 in the Folk category.
Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955 while he was on a plane bound for a concert at Oberlin College, one of the few venues which would hire him during the McCarthy era.[5] Leafing through his notebook he saw the passage, "Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken husbands. Where are the men, they're all in the army."[6] These lines were taken from the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", referenced in the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), which Seeger had read "at least a year or two before".[3]
Seeger created a song which was subsequently published in Sing Out in 1962. He recorded a version with three verses on The Rainbow Quest album (Folkways LP FA 2454) released in July 1960. Later, Joe Hickerson added two more verses with a recapitulation of the first in May 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana.
In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs".
The song appeared on the compilation album Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1967) released by Columbia Records as CS 9416.
Pete Seeger's recording from the Columbia album The Bitter and the Sweet (November 1962), CL 1916, produced by John H. Hammond was also released as a Columbia Hall of Fame 45 single as 13-33088 backed by "Little Boxes" in August, 1965.
The 1964 release of the song as a Columbia Records 45 single, 13-33088, by Pete Seeger was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 in the Folk category.
Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955 while he was on a plane bound for a concert at Oberlin College, one of the few venues which would hire him during the McCarthy era.[5] Leafing through his notebook he saw the passage, "Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken husbands. Where are the men, they're all in the army."[6] These lines were taken from the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", referenced in the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), which Seeger had read "at least a year or two before".[3]
Seeger created a song which was subsequently published in Sing Out in 1962. He recorded a version with three verses on The Rainbow Quest album (Folkways LP FA 2454) released in July 1960. Later, Joe Hickerson added two more verses with a recapitulation of the first in May 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana.
In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs".
The song appeared on the compilation album Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1967) released by Columbia Records as CS 9416.
Pete Seeger's recording from the Columbia album The Bitter and the Sweet (November 1962), CL 1916, produced by John H. Hammond was also released as a Columbia Hall of Fame 45 single as 13-33088 backed by "Little Boxes" in August, 1965.
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