{"id":888,"date":"2026-05-18T17:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=888"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:58:26","slug":"mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/05\/18\/mm\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1955"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-889\" style=\"width:805px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/image-1.png 612w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/image-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where have all the flowers gone -The kingston trio(lyrics)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bI3QVsW30j0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Where Have All the Flowers Gone?&#8221; is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_music\">folk song<\/a>\u00a0written by American singer-songwriter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Seeger\">Pete Seeger<\/a>\u00a0in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cossacks\">Cossack<\/a>\u00a0folk song &#8220;Koloda-Duda&#8221;, Seeger borrowed an Irish melody for the music\u00a0and published the first three verses in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sing_Out!\">Sing Out!<\/a><\/em> magazine.\u00a0\u00a0Additional verses were added in May 1960 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Hickerson\">Joe Hickerson<\/a>, who turned it into a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circular_song\">circular song<\/a>.\u00a0 Its rhetorical &#8220;where?&#8221; and meditation on death place the song in the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubi_sunt\">ubi sunt<\/a><\/em> tradition.\u00a0\u00a0In 2010, the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Statesman\">New Statesman<\/a><\/em>\u00a0listed it as one of its selections of the &#8220;Top 20 Political Songs&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The 1962 album version of the song was released as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_Records\">Columbia Records<\/a> Hall of Fame 45 single series in 1965 as 13\u201333088.\u00a0\u00a0The recording of the song by Pete Seeger was inducted into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame\">Grammy Hall of Fame<\/a>\u00a0in 2002 in the Folk category with the release year given as 1964 as a Columbia Records single.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . &#8220;Where Have All the Flowers Gone?&#8221; is a\u00a0folk song\u00a0written by American singer-songwriter\u00a0Pete Seeger\u00a0in 1955. 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