Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

**Ken Middleton** · 05-04-2011, 08:52 AM

Pete Seeger wrote this song in 1955.

Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

**shrink9** · 05-04-2011, 06:22 PM

Thank you for sharing this song with us. Every once in a while this song comes into my mind and I think about how it is just as significant today as it was when it was first recorded. When will they [we] ever learn?

**Ken Middleton** · 05-04-2011, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by shrink9

... Every once in a while this song comes into my mind and I think about how it is just as significant today as it was when it was first recorded ...

Yes, it's just the names that change. Pete Seeger wrote this just 2 years after the Korean War finished. Everyone at that time would also be aware of the millions that were killed around the world in WWII.

**FriendlyFred** · 05-04-2011, 09:54 PM

What a beautiful interpretation of the song.
Sophisticated picking and a great voice.

**Ken Middleton** · 05-04-2011, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by FriendlyFred

What a beautiful interpretation of the song.
Sophisticated picking and a great voice.

Thanks. The basic picking pattern is straightforward: 4 2 3 1 throughout. There are a few tricky pinky pull-offs as well though.

**eugene ukulele** · 05-05-2011, 03:47 AM

any man that sings a pete seeger song must have much good in him. thanks for the post Ken. I really enjoyed your interpretation of it. great, like always. Blessings.

**ascott** · 09-22-2011, 10:34 PM

I have never heard this song but it is wonderful. Thanks for sharing it here. Somehow this song reminds me of tulips in spring. I love flowers and I think it would be so sad if all flowers would be gone. So hopefully the flowers will only disappear in winter and come back in spring.