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Thread #124449 Message #2749025
Posted By: Jim Carroll
20-Oct-09 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'
Subject: RE: Folklore: 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'
MacColl's Singers Club in London used to regularly issue 'broadsides' as handouts - this one is dated September 1962:
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE Words and Music by Pete Seeger
1. Where have all the flowers gone? LONG TIME PASSING "Where have all the flowers gone? LONG TIME AGO "Where have all the flowers gone? The children picked them, every one, O, WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN? WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN.
2. Where have all the children gone? LONG TIME PASSING Where have all the children gone? LONG TIME AGO Where have all the children gone? They're men and women, every one, O, WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN? WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN
3. 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? They've taken husbands, every one, O, WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN? WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN
4. 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? They're all in uniform, O, WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN WHEN WILL YOU NEVER LEARN