Joan Baez - Where Have All The Flowers Gone

⁣Joan Baez sings the Pete Seeger song 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone'. This song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 as a song at least 25 years old having "qualitative or historical significance." Pete Seeger was inspired in writing the song in 1955 by lines from the Cossack folk song 'Koloda-Duda'. Joe Hickerson added verses in 1960. This live recording of an English version (Baez' studio recording was in German) sounds good enough in audio quality and performance to be a studio recording, but such sounds as a cough and other background noise show it's not. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below.

This song is a statement against war. Most people probably have more mixed feelings than the very strong feelings of the songwriter Pete Seeger and the singer Joan Baez. In the video, I selected mostly images relating to the American Civil War (shadow of soldier, cannon and cemeteries), a war of Americans killing other Americans - and so a war that most can view as not a good thing.

Where Have All The Flowers Gone

Singer - Joan Baez

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls 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?
Gone to young men 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?
They are all in uniform
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 they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Songwriters: Pete Seeger

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