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The song has come a long way from its origins among the Don Cossacks, but retains the same power: a poignant exploration of war, through the terrible, gaping absences it leaves behind.
Mar 14, 2022
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May 3, 2013 · It describes the Cossack soldiers galloping off to join the Czar's army, singing as they go. Three lines from a song are quoted in the book: ' ...
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"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a contemporary folk song. The first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955, and published in Sing Out!
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Pete Seeger wrote this song as a call for peace. He was inspired by Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don, which is about Czarist Russia.
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Mar 6, 2011 · Where have all the flowers gone is a simple poem about the futility of war. There are flowers in the field. The young girls pick them.
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Jan 29, 1999 · He wrote the song in 1955, drawing from a passage in a translation of the novel And Quiet Flows the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov.
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