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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Oct-09 - 03:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'

Along with Seeger's original text, Colpet used an old song, "Sagt wo sind die Veilchen hin," by Johann Georg Jacobi, 1782.
Veilchen = violets.
The German version was first sung in 1962 by Marlene Dietrich (may be heard on youtube).