Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

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anti-war song folk song protest song song

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a seminal anti-war folk song, written by Pete Seeger and popularized during the American folk music revival, that poignantly reflects on the cyclical nature of war and loss.

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Label	Occurrences
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? canonical	3
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	2

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anti-war song ⓘ folk song ⓘ protest song ⓘ song ⓘ
associatedMovement	1960s peace movement ⓘ American folk music revival ⓘ
associatedWith	Vietnam War era protest ⓘ
basedOn	Cossack folk song ⓘ
chorusLine	Where have all the flowers gone? ⓘ
composer	Pete Seeger ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalImpact	became a standard of the peace movement ⓘ widely regarded as a classic anti-war song ⓘ
decadeOfRelease	1950s ⓘ
firstRecordedBy	Pete Seeger ⓘ
genre	folk ⓘ protest music ⓘ
includedIn	many folk song anthologies ⓘ
inspiredBy	And Quiet Flows the Don ⓘ surface form: Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don
language	English ⓘ
lyricalDevice	circular narrative ⓘ repetition ⓘ
lyricist	Pete Seeger ⓘ
message	critique of the human cost of war ⓘ
narrativeFeature	depicts generational cycle from flowers to soldiers to graves ⓘ
notableCoverArtist	Harry Belafonte ⓘ Joan Baez ⓘ Johnny Rivers ⓘ Marlene Dietrich ⓘ Peter, Paul and Mary ⓘ The Kingston Trio ⓘ The Searchers ⓘ
performanceContext	folk music concerts ⓘ peace rallies ⓘ protest demonstrations ⓘ
recognizedAs	seminal anti-war folk song ⓘ
refrain	When will they ever learn? ⓘ
structure	strophic ⓘ
theme	anti-war ⓘ cyclical nature of war ⓘ loss ⓘ remembrance ⓘ
title	Where Have All the Flowers Gone? self-link ⓘ
yearOfComposition	1955 ⓘ

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American folk music revival → notableWork → Where Have All the Flowers Gone? ⓘ

Pete Seeger → notableWork → Where Have All the Flowers Gone? ⓘ

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? → title → Where Have All the Flowers Gone? self-link ⓘ

Peter, Paul and Mary → notableWork → Where Have All the Flowers Gone? ⓘ

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The Kingston Trio → notableWork → Where Have All the Flowers Gone? ⓘ

this entity surface form: Where Have All the Flowers Gone