To get away from opinion for a moment: I think it is a beatutiful song. What is its history? I remember there was a German song with the same tune called "Es Tut Mir Leidt" ("I Am Sorry") with the same tune.

--murray@mpce.mq.edu.au

How's this for a really bizarre bit of serendipity...

I was reading this thread because of this link posted by wildlone on the "Spaw's Greatest Faux Pas" thread. A short time later, while listening to the CBC radio online, I heard a recording of Marlene Deitrich (sp?) singing a song in German to the same tune as "Where Have All The Flowers Gone". I'm pretty sure the time frame for her singing that song was around the time of World War II. I didn't hear a title being given for the song.