Mudcat Café message #2749011

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Thread #124449 Message #2749011
Posted By: Joe_F
20-Oct-09 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'
Subject: RE: Folklore: 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'

IMO, the song is much better as Pete Seeger wrote it. It was a mistake for Hickerson to expand it into a cycle of posies, and a bigger mistake for Seeger to accept the result.