Pete Seeger WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE PT 2

Where Have All the Flowers Gone is a 1968 reissue of Pete Seeger's 1960 studio album The Rainbow Quest that has been retitled to draw attention to one of his best-known songs, which was introduced in the form he originally wrote it (which is to say, only the first three of the eventual five verses) on this LP. Seeger fills the first half of the album with three medleys, playing and singing a chorus or so of 17 different songs in 15 minutes, as if just getting down the basics of the tunes to remember them and perhaps perform them more fully later. Toward the end of this set, he gets a bit more serious and organized, beginning with the philosophical "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and its chorus (gently sung), "When will you ever learn?" What he wants his listeners to learn, it becomes apparent, is to avoid war, particularly nuclear war, as he follows with a Japanese poem to that effect before ending the medley section of the album with a poem by early 20th century labor organizer and