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Q: Where did all the flower go?

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? is a modern folk-style song. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song Koloda-Duda, Pete Seeger borrowed an Irish melody and the first three verses in 1955 and published it in Sing Out! magazine.

Written byPete SeegerLanguageEnglishISWC T-070.940.807-0 BMI, ISWC
Comments Lyrics based on three lines from the book "And Quiet Flows the Don" by Mikhail Sholokov. Those three lines originally came from the Russian song "Koloda Duda". Seeger's original version only has three verses. Published by FIGS D MUSIC BMI
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone written by Pete Seeger English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Seek and You Shall Find - Fare Well, Little Fishes - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Never Again …	Pete Seeger	1960	First release Medley
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	The Kingston Trio	December 18, 1961	Live
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Peter, Paul and Mary	May 1962
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Countrymen	November 1962
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Tommy Steele	December 1962
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Johnny Mann Singers	1962
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Svend Asmussen & Ulrik Neumann	1962
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Howard Morrison Quartet	1962
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Searchers	July 1963
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Freddie Scott	November 1963
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Bobby Darin	December 1963
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Nina & Frederik	1963
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Eddy Arnold and The Needmore Creek Singers	January 1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Cy Grant	July 1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Brothers Four	October 1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Vera Lynn with Tony Osborne and His Orchestra	1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Saxons [GB]	1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Judita	1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Lennon Sisters & Cousins	1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The 4 Seasons	1964
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Marlene Dietrich with Accompaniment directed by Burt Bacharach	January 1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Walter Jackson	July 1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Åse Kleveland	August 9, 1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Nick Taylor	1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Lee Curtis & The All-Stars	1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Brian Hyland	1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Johnny Rivers	1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Chas McDevitt & Shirley Douglas	1965
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Harry Belafonte	April 1, 1966
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Shirley Verrett	1966
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Merrymen featuring Emile Straker	1966
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	The Merrymen	1966
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Living Voices	1966
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Helen Merrill	1966
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Father Columba McManus	January 1967
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Louis Gossett Jr (Louis Gossett Jr)	November 1967	Unverified
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Joan Baez	1967
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	The Hiltonaires [JM]	1967
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	January 6, 1968
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Les Sauterelles	July 1968
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Chambers Brothers	October 1968
Tribute to Dietrich: Falling in Love Again - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - The Laziest Gal in T…	Elizabeth Larner & Mark Ryan	1969	Medley
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	The Crown Folk with Dana Scott	1969
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Peddlers	1969
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Mitch Miller & The Gang	November 1970
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	The Olive Branch	1970
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Roy Orbison	1970	Unverified
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Earth, Wind & Fire	October 19, 1972
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Anne Lise Gjøstøl	1972
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Richie Havens	1972
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Swingle II	1974
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Felicia Wong	1974
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias	1978
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	United Singers	1979
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Roy Bulkin	1981
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Bernie Sanders and 30 Vermont Artists	1987
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Lia Linda	1994
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Savage Rose	1995
Folk Influence	Turtle Creek Chorale	1997	Medley
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane & Vedran Smailović	March 17, 1998
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Liz Callaway	May 15, 2001
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Jasperina de Jong	2002
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Siân Phillips	April 2003
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Tamra Rosanes	July 5, 2004
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Olivia Newton-John	October 17, 2004
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Dolly Parton with Norah Jones and Lee Ann Womack	October 11, 2005
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Turtle Creek Chorale	2006
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Speaker Bite Me	March 12, 2007
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger	2007	Live
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Jennifer Ward-Lealand	2007
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Tomas Nicholas	2007
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Chris de Burgh	November 21, 2008
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Jimmy Somerville	May 19, 2009
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Sten & Stanley	2009
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Dennis and Christy Soares	2011
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind /Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Hannes Wader & Allan Taylor	2013	Live Medley
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Naomi Berrill	2014	Unverified
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Nicki White	July 5, 2015
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Petra Haden, Jesse Harris	April 29, 2016
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Spook Handy	June 3, 2016
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Pat Surface	2016
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Esther Kaiser	August 31, 2018	Medley
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? / Here's to the Heroes	Aled Jones & Russell Watson	November 9, 2018	Medley
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Donovan	2019
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Eliza Gilkyson	April 10, 2020
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	Kronos Quartet feat. Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight, and Aoife O'Donovan	July 29, 2020

Sag mir wo die Blumen sind written by Max Colpet German

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Marlene Dietrich	1962	First release
Sag' mir, wo die Blumen sind	Lolita [AT]	1963
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	The Springfields [GB]	1963
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Will Ferdy	1964	Unverified
Sagt mir wo die Blumen sind	Joan Baez	October 1965
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Freddy Quinn	1970
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Irwin Goodman	1971
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind	Friedrich Schütter	1972
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Juliane Werding	1973
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Katja Ebstein	1974
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Peter, Sue & Marc	1976
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Nana Mouskouri	1978
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Cassiber	1982
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Hannes Wader mit Lydie Auvray, Reinhard Bärenz, Hans Hartmann	1982	Live
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind	City [DE]	1983
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Arja	1983
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Udo Lindenberg + Panikorchester - Shanna Bitschewskaja	1985	Medley
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Rio Reiser - Marian Gold - Allstars	1986
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Hildegard Knef	June 1993
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Judy Winter	1998
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Jasperina de Jong	2002
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Lisa Wahlandt	2003
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Asher Quinn	2007
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Leah Thys	February 22, 2008
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind /Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Hannes Wader & Allan Taylor	2013	Live Medley
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Einstürzende Neubauten	November 7, 2014
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Gaby Rückert & Ingo Koster	2014
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Rosemary Standley	2016
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	Esther Kaiser	August 31, 2018	Medley
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Leæther Strip	September 7, 2018
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind	Pierre Lapointe	February 7, 2022

Where did all the flower go?

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a modern folk-style song. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", Pete Seeger borrowed an Irish melody and the first three verses in 1955 and published it in Sing Out! magazine.

What is the meaning behind Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

— an anti-war song with roots in the Don valley. Pete Seeger used an old Cossack lullaby to craft a powerful lament for dead soldiers and those they leave behind. Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger in 1955 © Getty Images. Miles Ellingham March 14 2022.

Where Have All the Flowers Gone Joan Baez meaning?

As a young man I remember the horrors of this conflict, one that nobody really comprehended, yet millions had to go and fight not knowing if they would come back safe. Many did not, and others came back with problems and memories that would haunt them forever. This song encapsulates the tragic feeling of that era.