Where Have All The Flowers Gone Pete Seeger Cover w/ 12 String & Guild B-50 NT Acoustic Bass

(c)1961 Words & Music Pete Seeger (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.
German adaption by Max Colpet.
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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?

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind? Wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind? Was ist gescheh'n?
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind? Mädchen pflückten sie geschwind
Wann wird man je versteh´n? Wann wird man je versteh´n?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Have_All_the_Flowers_Gone%3F
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Pete Seeger wrote this song as a call for peace. He was inspired by Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don, which is about Czarist Russia. In a 1988 interview with Paul Zollo, Seeger explained: "In one of the early chapters, it describes the Cossack soldiers galloping off to join the Czar's army. And they're singing: '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. Gallop, gallop, gallop, wheeeee!' I stuck the words in my pocket. A year or two or three went by and I never had time to look up the original. Meanwhile, I'm sitting in a plane, kind of dozing. And all of a sudden came a line I had thought about five years earlier: 'long time passing.' I thought that those three words sang well. All of a sudden I fitted the two together, along with the intellectual's perennial complaining, 'When will we ever learn?'"
Seeger's lyrics show how war and suffering can by cyclical in nature: girls pick flowers, men pick girls, men go to war and fill graves with their dead which get covered with flowers.
The folk group Peter, Paul And Mary began playing this, and when The Kingston Trio saw them perform it in concert, they recorded it the next day.
Movie star Marlene Dietrich recorded a German version. In 1965, Johnny Rivers hit #26 with his cover.

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[onkelbuke]

very beautuful

[frozenwhitebear]

real beautiful version W~, great arrangement and sound, too! bilingual klingt echt schön! cool capo-sliding, I saw it 1st time someone playing "Woman" by JLennon. ;) pretty acoustic bass as well! :)

[kidderminsterbro]

hey mr t man

i well remember performing this as a freshman in

college in 1968 in protest to the vietnam war.

may the flowers always win out in the end.

peace,rich

[Sunambra]

A first for me never seen anyone move a capo mid song love this Wg.

[soundproof714]

fantastic job,great sound,awesome job!!!!

[kajwilhelm]

Sehr güt. : )

[namnoiz]

You have a great singing voice and your guitar playing is very good ! Thumbs up and in my favs ! ...JL

[nllleonard]

That's truly a beautiful rendition, friend. Really like the last verse in German.