Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955, while on a plane bound for a concert in Ohio. Leafing through his notebook he saw the passage, Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, theyve all taken husbands. Where are the men, theyre all in the army.[5] These lines were taken from the traditional Cossacks folk song Tovchu, tovchu map, referenced in the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), which Seeger had read at least a year or two before. Seeger adapted it to the tune of the Russian folksong Koloda Duda (which was subsequently published in Sing Out in 1962). When will we ever learn? or as Peter Seeger asked himself about this question, maybe Im not being specify enough. Yes, The biggest question that I am left with in this post election and Remembrance Day season.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 02:38:38 +0000
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