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Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Artist
: Peter Seeger
Album
: Songs of Protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3QVsW30j0TheKingstontrio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXNVA9ngx8PeterPaulandMaryShoutFactoryMusic
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lyrics
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone, a long long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young man gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young man gone, long time ago? Where have
all the young man gone?
Gone for soldiers everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, 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?
Gone to flowers, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives
voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright
Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged
subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955. In
one of Pete's darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his
safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was
stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quie Flows the
Don". Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert
in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American
actress, first performed the song in French, as "Qui peut dire ou vont les
fleurs?" Shortly after she sang it in German. The song's impact in Germany
just after WWII was shattering. It's universal message, "let there be
peace in the world" did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary,
the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a
profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect
today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.
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