Sunday 8 November 2009

When will we ever learn? 

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
 
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
 
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
 
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
 
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
 
by Pete Seeger
Posted by Maggie Christie at 10:14 am

7 comments:

  1. Bovey Belle8 November 2009 at 13:14

    Thank you for this - I remember the song from my youth, and the words are still echoes, and still no-one listens. . .

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  2. Twiglet8 November 2009 at 13:31

    Yes - heard it on the radio this morning. Nothing changes.

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  3. The bike shed8 November 2009 at 13:49

    Apt

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  4. Cait O'Connor8 November 2009 at 23:08

    When will they ever learn?

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  5. Elizabethd9 November 2009 at 11:37

    How very true.

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  6. Pipany9 November 2009 at 11:44

    So strange - for no real reason I have been singing this to Isabella. When will we ever learn? x

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  7. Rob-bear14 November 2009 at 05:21

    Sang that (and similar) in the collage quad so long ago that I can barely remember. But I still have the 5-stringed banjo. And the recollection that my college behaviour attracted the attention of Security Services in Canada (like MI5). Of course I didn't learn about THAT aspect of the "fun" until I was interviewing the then-retired Minister of Justice for Canada, around 20 years after the fact.

    Um, is it still OK if I write to you like this? Considering my past and all?

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