WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?
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"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a folk song written by American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", Seeger borrowed an Irish melody for the music[1] and published the first three verses in Sing Out! magazine.[2] Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, who turned it into a circular song.[3] Its rhetorical "where?", and meditation on death, place the song in the ubi sunt tradition.[4] In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of its selections of the "Top 20 Political Songs".[5]
The 1962 album version of the song was released as part of the Columbia Records Hall of Fame 45 single series in 1965 as 13–33088.[6] The recording of the song by Pete Seeger was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 in the Folk category with the release year given as 1964 as a Columbia Records single.[7] In June 2026, CBS News included the song in its list of the 250 essential American songs of the past 250 years.[8]
Composition
Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955 while he was on a plane bound for a concert at Oberlin College, one of the few venues that would hire him during the McCarthy era.[9] Leafing through his notebook, he saw the passage, "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."[10] These lines were taken from the traditional Cossack folk-song "Koloda-Duda" (Russian: Колода-дуда), referenced in the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), which Seeger had read "at least a year or two before". In a 2013 interview, Seeger explained that he borrowed the melody from an Irish lumberjack song with the words 'Johnson says he'll load more hay.' He simply slowed the tune and incorporated the lines into it.[11][12]
He recorded and released a version with three verses on The Rainbow Quest album (Folkways LP FA 2454) in July 1960. Later, Joe Hickerson, then a graduate student who that summer became folk-music director at Camp Woodland in the Catskills,[13] added two more verses with a recapitulation of the first[11] in May 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana.[14]
Seeger published the song in Sing Out in 1962 as a copyrighted composition.
The 1962 recording of the song appeared on the compilation album Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1967) released by Columbia Records as CS 9416.
Pete Seeger's recording from the Columbia album The Bitter and the Sweet (November 1962), CL 1916, produced by John H. Hammond, was also released as a Columbia Hall of Fame 45 single as 13-33088 backed by "Little Boxes" in August 1965.[15][16]
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