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Thread #59916   Message #957369
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-May-03 - 09:52 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Letter to Eve (Pete Seeger)
Subject: ADD: Letter to Eve (Seeger)
Hmmm. The oly reference I can find to it is on the Pete Seeger tribute CD, Where Have All the Flowers Gone - but the recording is your Indigo Girls cut. I see we don't have the lyrics posted.
-Joe Offer-


LETTER TO EVE
(Pete Seeger)

Oh, Eve, where is Adam, now you're kicked out of the garden?
Oh, Eve, where is Adam, now you're kicked out of the garden?
Been wandering from shore to shore,
Now you find there's no more
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa.

Don't you wish love, love alone, could save this world from disaster?
Don't you wish love, love alone, could save this world from disaster?
If only love could end the confusion -
Or is it just one more illusion?
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa.

Well if . . . you want to have great love, you got to have great anger
Well if . . . you want to have great love, you got to have great anger
When I see innocent folk shot down,
Should I just shake my head and frown?
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa.

Well if . . . you want to hit the target square, you better not have blind anger
Well if . . . you want to hit the target square, you better not have blind anger
Or else it'll be just one more time
The correction creates another crime.
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa.

Oh Eve, you tell Adam, next time he asks you
Oh Eve, you tell Adam, next time he asks you
He'll say, "Baby it's cold outside;
What's the password to come inside?"
You say, Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa.

Oh, Eve, go tell Adam, we got build a new garden
Oh, Eve, go tell Adam, we got build a new garden
We got to get workin' on the building
Of a decent home for all o' God's children.
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa.

If music . . . could only bring peace, I'd only be a musician
If music . . . could only bring peace, I'd only be a musician
If songs could do more than dull the pain,
If melodies could only break these chains
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa.

Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa!
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa!
Four thousand languages in this world,
Means the same thing to every boy and girl
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa!
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa!

[Seeger added the following verse later]
Oh, when it's stormy weather good people got to gather together
Oh, when it's stormy weather good people got to gather together
We know there's no place to hide,
Still in friends one can confide
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa!
Oh, Pacem in Terris, Mir, Shanti, Salaam, Hey Wa!



Words and Music by Pete Seeger (1967)
(c) 1967 by Sanga Music Inc.

Source: Where Have All the Flowers Gone, by Pete Seeger (Sing Out Publications, 1993)
The song appears on two other recordings:
PS: Pete Seeger Now
Magpie: Living Planet

Click to play

It's quite different from the Indigo Girls recording - Yeah, Emily, I wonder how it sounded when Pete sang it.

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