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Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine, Winter, 2006 by Joe Hickerson
I was intrigued by David Enge's deserved tribute to Pete Seeger in last issue's "Broadsides" column (v.49#3), where he reports on his student's performance of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" "by you know whom." He asserts that "the songwriter, if he were here with us, would grin from ear to ear, and say it was a great song to be sung." I totally agree and continue to be in wonderment and remembrance of Pete writing this three-verse song on his way to do a concert at Oberlin College on October 20, 1955. He sang it at that event (which happened to be on my 20th birthday) and I was there. However, it was not until five years later that I heard it again on his just-released LP Rainbow Quest and started singing it with guitar accompaniment with friends and audiences in Bloomington, Indiana. It was too short for mellow singing, so I added the fourth and fifth verses in late May 1960 and put the first verse at the end to create a song of good singing length. I taught it that summer to the staff and campers at Camp Woodland in Phoenicia, N.Y., and some of them took my extended version to New York City where Peter, Paul, and/or Mary heard it and adopted it into their repertoire. The Kingston Trio heard them sing it and it became somewhat of a hit in 1962. So, as the co-author of "Flowers," I too am pleased that the song continues to be remembered and sung.
Joe Hickerson
Silver Spring, Md.
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