Songs That Changed the World--The Most Important Songs of the Rock Era: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" by Johnny Rivers

    Johnny Rivers took a popular folk song and made it better.  From flowers to young girls to husbands to soldiers to graveyards to flowers.  And repeat ad nauseum.  




    "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
    by Johnny Rivers

    The lines "Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken husbands. Where are the men, they're all in the army" are from the traditional Cossacks folk song "Tovchu, tovchu mak".  Pete Seeger adapted them and wrote the first three verses; Joe Hickerson completed the song that you hear from Johnny Rivers. 

    Where have all the flowers gone
    Long time passing
    Where have all the flowers gone
    Long time ago
    Where have all the flowers gone
    Young girls pick them every one
    When will they ever learn
    When will they ever learn?

    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

    Taken husbands, every one
    When will they ever learn
    When will they ever learn?

    Where have all the young men gone
    Long time passing
    Where have all the young men gone
    A long, long time ago
    Where have all the young men gone
    Gone to soldiers every one
    When will they ever learn
    When will they ever learn?

    Where have all the soilders gone
    Long time passing
    Where have all the soilders gone
    Long time ago
    Where have all the soilders gone
    Gone to graveyards every one
    When will they ever learn
    When will they ever learn?

    Where have all the graveyards gone
    Long time passing
    Where have all the graveyards gone
    Long time ago
    Where have all the graveyards gone
    Gone to flowers
    When will they ever learn
    When will they ever learn?

    Source URL: https://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/09/songs-that-changed-world-most-important_15.html
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