Where
Have All the Flowers Gone?
Written by
Peter Seeger.
Copyright 1961 and 1977 by Fall River Music, Inc.
The song
was inspired by a passage
from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel
"And Quie Flows the Don" with additional
verses by Joe Hickerson.
The song made its greatest impact in Germany,
translated into German and sung by Marlene Dietrich. The comgination of
the language and the setting had a shattering effect on those who heard
it.
Where
have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young girls, 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?
Gone to soldiers, every one!
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
And where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, a long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one!
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
And where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one!
When will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn?
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