Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Pete Seeger
From Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits
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June 8, 2010 at 11:36 am
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June 8, 2010 at 6:59 pm
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?'”
June 8, 2010 at 8:17 pm
sblake,
Wow, I never would have guessed his inspiration for that song. I can hear Russians singing it in their inimitable manner.
June 15, 2010 at 8:14 am
Kat,
I remember I used to always to try and make up alternate lines to songs. Still do.
I don’t recall if this was one of mine or not.
“Where have all the flowers gone
Some bastard pinched ’em”
When will I ever grow up??
Pete
June 15, 2010 at 10:21 am
Pete,
I hope you never grow up!!