Where have all the flowers gone

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Uploaded by on May 20, 2010

Thomascow`s version "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (1961) is a folk song. The first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955, He was inspired by Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don, which is about Czarist Russia. Additional verses were added by Joe Hickerson in May 1960, who turned it into a circular song. Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death can be seen as falling in the ubi sunt tradition. Seeger's lyrics show how war and suffering can be cyclical in nature: girls pick flowers, men pick girls, men go to war and fill graves with their dead which get covered with flowers.

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