Where Have All the Flowers Gone by the Kingston Trio meaning?
Songfacts®: 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. >>
How is Where Have All the Flowers Gone a folk song?
An archetypal folk song from the godfather of folk, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” has been through many versions and recordings since Pete Seeger first penned a few verses 55 years ago. It is a song inspired by the words of a Ukranian folk song in Mikhail Sholokhov’s And Quiet Flows the Don.
Who wrote Where Have All the Flowers Gone lyrics?
Pete Seeger
Joe Hickerson
Where Have All the Flowers Gone/Lyricists
What group sang Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Pete Seeger
Where Have All the Flowers Gone/Artists
What does the song where have all the flowers gone mean?
The song suggests that war is futile and we keep making the same mistakes – in life and with our endless wars. And the song keeps asking the question: “When will they ever learn?” At the end “they” changes to “we,” because the question concerns us all.
What is the meaning of where have all the flowers?
Young girls have picked all the flowers to put on the graves of their young boyfriends who have all died in battle. It’s an antiwar song dealing with way wars destroy an entire generation. From Pete Seeger’s Wiki page:
Why did Pete Seeger make the song where have all the flowers gone?
Pete Seeger added a few verses and made the song into a cycle. Although Seeger’s song was originally made popular in the time of upheaval that surrounded the protests in the United States about the Viet Nam War, the lyrics take on a wider meaning. The song is really about the cycle of history and how impossible it is to break.
Where did the song where are the flowers come from?
At the time it was a kind of protest song about war. In an interview Seeger had said that he got the idea to write the song from a Russian novel called And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. In the story a group of Cossacks in Czarist Russia ride out of their village singing, “Where are the flowers?
