Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

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On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955.
In one of Pete's darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quie Flows the Don". Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American actress, first performed the song in French, as "Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?" Shortly after she sang it in German. The song's impact in Germany just after WWII was shattering. It's universal message, "let there be peace in the world" did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary, the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.

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Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

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  • Amen.

    Amen.

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  • bonjour rien a dire

    bonjour rien a dire

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  • they should put ...

    they should put pete on a stamp a little retribution for what they did to him

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  • Hey what album is ...

    Hey what album is this from?

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  • I love this song to ...

    I love this song to bits!!! Best rendition (my favorite actually, is Dolores Keane, Tommy Sands and Vedran Smailovic version - WAW nothing like it - Thanks for putting this up.

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    Deeply moving version of this classic anti-war song.

    Gotta admit I got a little misty there.

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    I am so happy when I see and hear this American! Hopefully there are many others like him. What BEAUTIFUL pictures of flowerfields! Such flowers we have in our gardens where I live, bought at high prices in garden centers

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  • pete seeger, a true ...

    pete seeger, a true hero. he will live forever his work will never be forgotten never give up on peace!

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    Thanks to people like Pete and songs like this we can go on hoping and working for peace - never say die!

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  • Thank you, my ...

    Thank you, my friend.

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    Compliments to you on the "About This Video" text -- good job! This song is always poignant and very much so today! It is too bad that the message is lost on some leaders.

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  • I don't think we ...

    I don't think we ever will. It's truly very sad.

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  • When will we ever ...

    When will we ever learn indeed.

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