Uploaded by Thespadecaller on Feb 18, 2008
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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when will they learn that war isn't the answer?
when will they learn that people are people?
when will they learn that love is love?
when will we learn to accept the world; all its faults, and all of ours
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I Cry for all women and men
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ich kann dir nur zustimmen mein Uropa war im Krieg er sagte immer wieder das es das schlimmste ist und ehe er wieder in den Krieg müsse erschieße er sich
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Politiker starten Kriege ohne selber in den Krieg zu ziehen anstatt ihrer werden Soldaten geschickt pfui
GOTT BITTE LASSE DIE WELT NIE MEHR IN KRIEG UNTER GEHEN SCHENKE EINIGKEIT ZWISCHEN NATIONEN UND RELIGIONEN AMEN
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where are sent in to fight a war that the Politicians start
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For Gordon
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@heartfire451 I'm an "oldster" as Pete sometimes refers to himself as, but it thrills my heart to see that young people like yourself will be around to keep his work, legacy and everything he stands for alive. Your generation must keep the fire burning in the hopes that maybe someday we might not have to continue asking this age-old question.
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When will they ever learn...
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sanyalindrajit 7 months ago 57
I will cry my eyes out the day Pete dies. He is a true treasure of a human being. I am a young person and still think his music rules. Music from my generation is mostly vile garbage. Many blessings upon Pete Seeger.
heartfire451 5 months ago 21