PETE SEEGER ⑪ Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Live in Sweden 1968)

Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind,
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
Oh, when will we 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?
Gone for husbands everyone.
Oh, when will we ever learn?
Oh, when will we 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,
They are all in uniform,
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

[@marioski54]

When, as young, I listened to this song I always cried. Now, as 70 y.o. I listen to this song and still cry

[@jimkruszka3817]

me too

[@donnah4713]

Me too!

[@carmencaamano9434]

Cuando oyes la canción con Marlene dietrich, entiendes la furia que dan las guerras... Con pete seeger parece más asumirlas con pena, pero no veo rabia

[@judithlewis9634]

Same. Tears.😢

[@BrianS5588]

We need to sing it as much today as all those years ago.

[@LPJack02]

RIP Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014), aged 94 You will be remembered as a legend.

[@PowerandLightTarot]

Lived long cuz he trusted his heart with his music ❤

[@GhostRider-re7iv]

This song I listened to as a baby, in 1972 to 73. This man, Pete was one of my earliest influences. The song will always bring sadness and comfort to me.

[@LoudandClearChastity]

Mesmerising! Absolutely beautiful. The song still resonates in 2024!! The world has still not learnt...very sad.

[@robertdavis1255]

Thanks for sharing your video....I am 79 yrs old and have always loved listening to the words & the music...

[@mariaantoniettacannizzaro7096]

A true and beautiful song against war.A great singer.I love Pete Seeger.

[@marknewton6984]

Still a great song!

[@mimiroy8604]

👍❤️

[@Dt0x75]

I accidently ran into Pete Seeger on his property in Beacon NY in the early 90s because it was an abandoned log home we use to hang out as kids. So myself and a friend went to hang out there while snowboarding and he came out the door and asked if he could help us, and we didn't know anyone had bought the house, so we apologized and he laughed and said it's ok, would you two like some hot chocolate? So we sat and drank hot chocolate with Pete Seeger and were didn't even know who he was, but he was very pleasant and very friendly

[@pipfox7834]

Yes, I do love that old fashioned, gracious way of greeting a stranger " on the place". My dad was of Petes generation, he said the exact same words when a friend of mine accidentally opened the wrong door when going to bed one night. Dad, in bed in the dark..."can I help you?" In gentle tones. (We were visiting)

[@johnhulsker9123]

I'm an old man that stood against war and strife going back to when this song was new. I do wish there were more Pete Seegers to follow in his footsteps. From where I look, I see only cynicism and indifference, it greatly saddens me.

[@harveystill4549]

my mother loved this song but was happy for me go to Vietnam ? thankfully the labor party (in australia) got elected in 1972 and ended conscription

[@nunocosta3923]

@@harveystill4549 in Australia? in Australia you go to Vietnam? i dont understand...

[@harveystill4549]

@@nunocosta3923 Australian soldiers were in Vietnam from 1962 to 1972 . i was due for conscription but the labor party won the election and abolished conscription -whats there not to understand ? 500 australians died for no reason -60,000 served

[@margaretmitchell4200]

There should be many more John Hulskers in this world X

[@chiraranjanbakshi3877]

Both Pete and Peggy Seegers had been the voice of peace! Nobel Prize is too feeble to define their values! I, for one, had witnessed their most captivating performance in the basement of Union Tavern at King's X, London, in late sixties! What a joyous recollection !

[@metelusvoltaire3120]

I'm Haitian living, I'm 30. I fell on this wonderful, peaceful, revolutionary man two years ago. Ever since I can't stop listening to his songs. This generation needs people like him.

[@TheBezaleel]

Well seen and stated, you are totally correct, best wishes from the UK.

[@lovesings2us]

Thank you for your beautiful comment.

[@raylenenielsen5943]

I’m young, too. And I feel the same. I believe music and singing are supposed to be beautiful and have meaning. So I pretty much have to go back in time to find anything worth listening to.

[@shoeby9273]

He was a true American. A culture I'm proud of.

[@sryth1]

I used to sail out of Beacon, and he was involved with the sloop club there. I don’t agree with all his politics, but his heart, enthusiasm, and warmth were unmatched. Even as an old man, he was the first in line at the club to get to work!

[@paulettewhonoutka9733]

This is one of the saddest songs ever. So simple and so profound. If they could just give a war… and no one would show. Then we all will win.

[@Salman-sc8gr]

All wars are banker's wars, as General Smedley said "All wars are a racket" 911 was another job by the same crooks blamed on a Caveman in Afghanistan.

[@Nan-59]

Amen, friend!

[@carmencaamano9434]

​@@Nan-59amén, por qué? Eres una persona sin futuro, y haces que los tuyos hagan lo mismo, ese amen es lo que hacen los musulmanes cuando dicen que pase lo que tenga que pasar y ninguno de vosotros hace lo que dice!! Me tenéis hasta el copón de dios!

[@judybooth128]

I so miss those days I'm 68.

[@dean5220]

Hello Judy, How are you doing?

[@yogijaya2897]

​@@dean5220 JUDY!

[@mandre6488]

Yes, me too. Hugs.....

[@mikeramsay3294]

Another Pete Seeger is needed now!

[@JordanFrgsn]

Check out Jesse Welles

[@colinbateman8233]

I was a boy again listening to this remembering the nightly news announcing the dead in the war of Vietnam Walter Konkrite and that the way it is

[@toniweston4330]

This takes me back, way back! Tears in my eyes, this song really touched me today as I am 69 forever & lost many friends to patriotic duty!

[@yogijaya2897]

❤

[@mimiroy8604]

❤.lam also 66.the same feelings as yours and Tears in my eyes.

[@Elssa1]

Love this so much! I lived in Beacon for about 15 years and attended his Festivals there. Love and miss him.

[@tomgraves6463]

Being stoic is noble, crying is human. I felt human today. 💙✌️

[@angelalely4206]

❤

[@annimerethenilsen8888]

I want him in my funeral!!!he says everything i wa not to say.rip peete Seeger thank you for all you gave to us!an old lady!❤❤❤

[@sderoski1]

Once again, European TV of the one of the greatest song artists from the US, thank you for documenting our musical history!

[@rsl4093]

First heard this in 1968 at age 7 - was so moved with emotion at such a young age - such a profound message that has never been for forgotten. Now 50 years later still brings tears to my eyes.

[@jamesquaid2544]

Same

[@will9605]

Likewise!

[@janepiepes2243]

..me, too !

[@rccook4651]

For me at was a few years earlier in English, but in Germany . It was very popular as far back as I can remember much of anything which would be about 1964

[@Nan-59]

I was 9 in ’68 ❤❤❤

[@lovesings2us]

I love Pete. He will never die. May we who love to sing, sing on bravely for justice and kindness, as he showed us. Pete Seeger- Presente!

[@eleSDSU]

Hoy y siempre!

[@drsteele4749]

I think he actually died. 2014, I'm told.

[@Paul-iy1yx]

HOW VERY HUMBLING for me. I MET Pete Seeger in my college years (1980's) after attending his fund-raising concert in the San Francisco Bay Area. A truly amazing (and yet VERY HUMBLE gentleman). This was almost a "perfect closure" for me since we lost him not too many years later. I got both a photo of US AND his autograph for my parents.. our family was RAISED on his (and the WEAVERS') music. Our mom was a folk music singer / guitarist as well as a teacher (schools also). Within the year that the WOODSTOCK movie came out, our family attended the TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE concert at the Hollywood Bowl. On stage were: Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Odetta, Richie Havens, Country Joe MacDonald (just to name a few). BTW.. this recording can be found on KZbin (parts also at a similar production done in New York).

[@名前のない馬-k2y]

Very very great song. From Japan.

[@patrickvandenberg3082]

When we will ever learn? Well, it seems that the world is not understanding in which trouble we are. This song is was written in 1858 and is perfectly describing our current complicated times. Pete you did a great job with this song - RIP.

[@sandrakenney567]

I was born in 1966 at the age of 10 i heard Peter singing this song and said mam whos that signing and whats the song about she said if you want to no a song listening to the words for the words tell a story .ever since then i got hooked into folk music of those days and still listen.pity music today dosent tell stories from those days of music of stories long time passed but not forgotten. Rest in Peace peter and to those gone but not forgotten Amen🙏🕊🦋🌻🌷🌹

[@HenryLarsson-k2d]

❤Fantastisk sångröst o artist. Hallo from Sweden ❤❤❤❤❤

[@harridan.]

Hello Sweden, from New Mexico, u.s.a.

[@jonseeker3495]

More relevant today than ever ..beautiful and prophetic

[@ankurpriyadarshan]

Sadly, this remains as relevant as ever.....if not more :(

[@WhangamataBar]

"Pray to God and SHE will hear our prayers" Classic!

[@gyorgykaro1754]

The Lyric, with the original, authent music, and than one tear down on face to left, one to right.

[@svendbosanvovski4241]

One of the great Americans of his time and truly a citizen of the world. He was so far ahead of the pack when it came to women's rights, the struggle against racism, protection of the environment, opposition to war and so on. Of course, he paid a price for that, but never took a step backwards.

[@MosheRoseshter]

An amazing human being and an amazing song writer and singer.

[@phillipmaasdorp9491]

I have listened to many versions of this song. It is a absolute honor to the original version. And we still have not learned a lesson.

[@josephinethompson2946]

He sure deserved a Nobel Peace Prize. God bless him.

[@melvyncham]

Still we never learn , written about the Korean war , used at the time of Vietnam and every war since

[@raymondhummel5211]

Such a wonderful song with deep meaning. I remember singing this song a lot in the 1960's. Pete Seeger does such a wonderful version of it.

[@tillneumann406]

He wrote it.

[@vladtheimpaler8995]

@@tillneumann406No actually. I beleive Taylor Swift did it first . Correct me if I’m wrong.

[@shoeby9273]

Listening this thinking about the young men dying for oligarchs that don't care about them. Life is cruel and people like Pete give me hope.

[@AMentorway4u]

What a voice. Blessed are we for this man has crossed our path.

[@tomgraves6463]

Have we learned? It seems not yet. It seems we need to listen more. Find joy and simple content, and peace may find us yet. Powerful words and music lives on even though these wonderful people have moved on like the flowers. May the hearts desire for peace be what we achieve. Tom~ 2022 age 60

[@johnblecker4206]

I first heard this song in 1961 while drinking beer in a small graveyard in Bronx NY.

[@devonseamoor]

What a great song! The '60s were a true decade of awakening, even when it only was an attempt, it left such a great bunch of goodies for us. Now that another awakening is due. History seems to repeat itself, but there is a time not far in the future where we will listen and truly learn. And act on it.

[@jamiegagnon6390]

Optimist! good for you. I am 67 and I am far from optimistic.

[@hoteisan1317]

シェアさせて戴きます。

[@ignaziocabula5320]

Sei il padre di un filone musicoculturale ed etico che ha fatto la storia e in tanti di devono molto, anche chi ti ascolto ancora oggi nella fine del 2924 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

The early 70's with flower children not knowing how much work it takes to care for flowers....but more importantly the building of soil. The work it takes to fight against the military machine , the social problems from poverty to racism. Somehow I spent myself...to lay by the hour in my body which now is my cage...I guess I never learned to fight for my own peace, my own body.

[@patearly9492]

Thank you for sharing this amazing classic from The Amazing Pete Seeger! Rest in peace Pete and Toshi and God bless everyone

[@philipr1567]

Pete Seeger deserved a Nobel Peace Prize far more than some recent recipients.

[@vadimasmir]

U R so right. Bob Dylan got it sirca 2016. With due respect for the Panel and their rationale I would make it shorter: if only for his "The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind". But Bob fathered this beautiful creation much later than Pete. Nobody's perfect, High Commands, Panels and Juries included. Even Tempora with their respective Mores.

[@mateluna]

Many war criminals have gotten it

[@jamessim1858]

Yes very good but I personally preferred the Burl loves version

[@jamessim1858]

Meant Ives.

[@jayantasarkar2532]

We shall overcome deserves it, hands down

[@frankfuller]

Beautiful and so 2019 just as it was so 1958. Well done Pete Seeger.

[@patriciahiggins9188]

Wonderful and sad

[@joelmartenson4908]

Hello and how doing hope all's well with you and your family I'm totally in love with your comment. It would be nice hearing from you soon hopefully. Please stay safe 😷😄😷

[@jvbenjamin]

@@joelmartenson4908 I agree

[@carolholmes6352]

Beware the next year..2020 is a year from Hell

[@arjob]

The pain in his voice, always being tears to my eyes.

[@daviddiggins274]

❤️❤️❤️ To everything there is a season turn turn turn……missing Pete today

[@elisabethbabnik7029]

ich wusste bis heute nicht, dass der Song von Peter Seeger ist. Ein so wunderschöner Song, den ich bislang nur von MD kannte, die diesen hervorragenden interpretierte. Sie wusste, was Krieg bedeutet.

[@EdmondForster68]

I like it, when he sings, when will we ever learn? Rest in peace!

[@FriesinNF]

It‘s a shame! We never learn.

[@cynthiaennis3107]

I have always loved this song...but it has always made me so sad...even as a little girl. The beauty & truth if it! Thank you, Mr. Seeger!

[@joelmartenson4908]

Hello and how doing hope all's well with you and your family I'm totally in love with your comment. It would be nice hearing from you soon hopefully. Please stay safe 😷😄😷

[@petelarose998]

Yes, Pete Seeger really did deserve the Nobel Peace Prize more than a lot of other people that received it well maybe not a lot but if you if I recall correctly one of our presidents a while back got it I never understood why cuz I didn't see what he had done for peace anyway I love the music Pete Seeger.

[@singatune]

When will we learn to love one another. Words Jesus left us.

[@aidanphelan2952]

America needs this beautiful spirit badly nowadays 🙏

[@maries.9252]

The entire world needs this spirit more than ever. We have so far learned nothing.

[@소우주-n2u]

Pete you know what your beautiful song is still loved by people who live in 2019.

[@FFWC-Service]

LOVE THIS - Great childhood memory 🏩

[@beth12svist]

I think one of the greatest strengths of this song is that its apparent simplicity allows it to be fairly easily translated into other languages without losing any of its impact... I grew up with the Czech version. I think - I'm no longer sure but I'm fairly certain - that, as our mother sang various Czech folk songs to us as children, this one also slipped in.

[@beth12svist]

@Sunny bob Quackers I knew the rough shape of that history but not all the details, thanks. There is a Czech folk _verse_ (not song) with a similar "storyline", too, which only helps this song feel entirely at home.

[@petraduldhardt4244]

❤❤

[@alidabaxter5849]

I used to listen to this beautiful song in the 1960s and cried every time. And then as Pete Seeger says Marlene Dietrich sang it and she broke your heart. So it doesn't matter what language it is sung in, it still has the same meaning and it still makes you weep.

[@damienfaure8739]

Such a voice...

[@harridan.]

yes!

[@normantan9795]

Wish I had known this song 4 years ago. Would have played it for my wife funeral. But it’s not too late. Goodbye my friend. Missed you dearly

[@spiritosa0123]

So sweet. what a lovely memory to play this song for her

[@noeldsouza412]

May her soul rest in peace 🇮🇳

[@siegfriedkarner5200]

God bless you.

[@lisafairclough8122]

God bless you.x

[@andrewkeen7828]

Outstanding man fought for the working man, respected widely in the USA. Different times.

[@bobgehret2102]

A commie who loved Stalin

[@Cleardelune]

Many forget this magistral composer ...

[@colinburrowes5033]

There are plenty of Pete Seegers still at it. Protest music is out there and lots of it is amazing. You have to seek and you shall find.

[@nigelhamilton815]

Respect to Pete. His ideals resonate even now.

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Great Song and Great Singer Forever , Bravo !

[@johnsunkutu141]

Sad and sorrowful piece of music full of memories what a great song.

[@asienplum]

Where has all the music gone...😢 So many feelings...

[@peterndungu392]

I heard this song first in 1971 in Leeds, while attending a Children's International Summer Village Camp. It was taught to us by my awesome friend, William "Bill" Osborne of Ottawa, Canada.

[@gerryvanderzeypen1214]

I WAS 23 years old then....how did I live to be where I am today 42 years later....and this world??? what a shame it has become..............RIP great man.

[@margretfreeman8291]

Such a beautiful but stark song, sung by a master who is so missed.

[@bryandale2318]

If you don't like Pete Seeger after this performance, you are either deaf, daft or in need of hospital, as far as protest singers go, he's so far above everyone else, and Dylan and Baez admired him greatly. Thank you sir Pete Seeger.

[@staringxu]

Dozen of years had past from this song written, but war had never stopped. HAD we learned something?Sadly, nothing.

[@blanchelobo4420]

This was 1 of my favorite oldies. Thank You Lord for allowing me to hear it again after several decades. Bless You Lord God

[@damsam4369]

We need more music like this. We miss u pete. Rip

[@Frannie12]

1968 seems simple compared to what is happening now. The song still rings true.

[@Helmut_Vetter]

Vielen Dank.

[@kattoneycliffe6715]

Watching this vid on the anniversary of his passing. Also have just recently learned of the movie out now of him & Bob Dylan!

[@Treasurer-w3b]

I visited a pub on the Isle of Bute in Scotland this evening and there was a Dutchman playing an accordion. He broke into this tune and it took me back so many years. It is still as poignant as it was when I was a young man 60 years ago. When I got home I just had to look it up on U Tube

[@palmeracallejera]

I sang this yesterday in the Remembrance Assembly, a song I learned in Primary School. Most of our kids here in Colombia love reggaeton, so it was lovely to share a melody with beautiful words, the like most of them have never heard. I was so nervous because it's so uncool, but many of them liked it, so that's great.

[@gwynnielsen5081]

I think this was probably the first folk song I ever memorized and sang. Classic. Where have all the political songs gone? (Don't worry. I have one coming out next year myself.)

[@darrylpokea2862]

Then and Now across our planet, when will we ever learn and let women have equanimity.

[@karenmccarthy578]

I have always loved this song and feel we will never learn.

[@henryinflorida]

This is one of those timeless songs, always relevant. I first listened to the Peter Paul and Mary version in the 1960"s, but I love all versions.

[@judithsmith9582]

The songs of this era spoke to our hearts and our basic humanity. We need songs like this for today as well.

[@lawrencevandenberg7725]

Superb offering--song's still being composed...

[@normkelly2678]

I first heard this song 57 years ago. I was a young army cadet at summer camp; practising the military arts and Civil Defence. We all thought nuclear war was on the horizon and we had to be prepared to do our duty. I went on to serve 26 years in the Canadian army. The whole time we were in the "Cold War" ; doing our best to keep it from becoming a "Hot War". The World experienced many other significant conflicts and wars during my years of service and beyond; Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan to name a few. It would seem soldiers understand the sad reality of these words but so many politicians and o called leaders just don't get it. I am not bitter but I am tired. I have done the best I can and all my children have served as well; I wonder if it was all in vain. Can someone please record this song again; I feel the World needs to hear it once again.

[@patriciagimse5373]

Let us all keep singing for him ..

[@rabokarabekian409]

@Edward Gross Where you gettin' your history from? And you clearly consider Pete a lunatic if you think ways solve wars. Fucking for celibacy, anyone? Notice even the OP can't say it was worth it?

[@julianmarsh1378]

@Edward Gross are you sure?

[@be.the.light.2107]

My eyes watered hearing his thoughts and now this song which I have never heard…live - but only a few times on the radio.

[@aelrickofoid6733]

I am 31 years old I dont remember not listening to Petes music. When Pete sang it was an angel giving him his voice. Pete will never die. He may be dead physically but he will live on through his music forever and this is the time in the world of suffering were he is needed most.

[@kessingtonokorie7002]

Great rendition, Pete. God bless Ur Soul.

[@robertcubinelli4961]

We will never learn.....not anymore at this point.

[@garyechols9458]

Rendition, it's his song.

[@lemmydingo]

Yeah!

[@theafricanphilosopherqueen3032]

Wow...was one year old but heard the song as a teenager

[@paolofranceschi6874]

Bellissima. Commovente. 😢

[@emiel61477]

it one of the songs i played when i started to play gitar 1968 i stil play it now that iam 70 yrs old

[@lauriemcmullinto7230]

He was a Brilliant Poet & Musician💞 Miss him. So so many beautiful songs

[@dean5220]

Hello Laurie, How are you doing?

[@mauriciofinotti6664]

We need more Pete Seegers in the World

[@Lentin00]

This song always makes me cry... so simple but so beautiful

[@colinsmith141]

A poet, a pacifist and an amazing man. Boy how we miss him!

[@jackieshmueli1850]

What a fantastic man,thank you Pete ,with love from israel !

[@TammyMartinBLUE]

Will we not ever know another so passionate about what is righteous?

[@lauriemcmullinto7230]

Beautiful 🌠🎶🎵u r so right.....

[@atharvs1]

*communist

[@robertcubinelli4961]

Relevant today more than ever !!!!

[@DownMichael]

I saw Pete do this at Mariposa 3 years later. A country troubadour we were blessed to have.

[@harriettt9857]

Such a really beautiful song and singer

[@mahulad7298]

Nobel prize wouldnt be good enough as it has been cheapened by it handing out to any one whos connected to the right lot. Make Pete a Saint would be just fine my me. RIP you legend.

[@Gigika313]

No to war.

[@davidwhitehouse7719]

The simplest but for me the best song ever written....the message is there for all to take note of