Back Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Breton Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Czech Where Have All the Flowers Gone German Ĉiuj floroj estas for Esperanto چه بر سر گلها آمده؟ Persian Where Have All the Flowers Gone Finnish Where Have All the Flowers Gone? French Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Italian 花はどこへ行った Japanese Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Latin
| "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" | |
|---|---|
 Columbia Hall of Fame 45 rpm single release as 13-33088 featuring the November 1962 version | |
| Song | |
| Language | English |
| Released | March 14, 1955 |
| Length | 3:04 |
| Composer(s) | Pete Seeger |
| Lyricist(s) | Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson |
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a folk song written by American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", Seeger borrowed an Irish melody for the music,[1] and published the first three verses in Sing Out! magazine.[2] Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, who turned it into a circular song.[3] Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the ubi sunt tradition.[4] In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs".[5]
The 1964 release of the song as a Columbia Records Hall of Fame series 45 single, 13–33088, by Pete Seeger was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 in the Folk category.
- ^ ""Where have all the Flowers gone," connecting Ukraine and Ireland, a chat with Pete Seeger". YouTube.
- ^ Seeger, Pete. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone". Sing Out!. 11 (5).
- ^ Hickerson, Joe (2009–2010). "The Songfinder". Sing Out!. 53 (2): 76.
- ^ Jones, Chris (February 11, 2014). "'Where have all the flowers gone?' and the ubi sunt motif". University of St Andrews. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ Smith, Ian K (March 25, 2010). "Top 20 Political Songs: Where Have All the Flowers Gone". New Statesman. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
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