Pete Seeger: US folk singer and activist dies aged 94

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A man of the people with simple views on how you should treat one and other
with equality & respect, in times echoing today when greedy egotistic puppets
ran and still run corporate America. Thru establishment prejudice and sanctions
he helped revive the American folk singing movement spawning the 60's generation
of free thinking folk artists and helping the black movement for equality in a
still significantly prejudice country particularly in some southern states..

Pete Seeger. The Power of Song (2007) by PBS American Masters (full version)

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I challenge you not to shed a tear of joy at these old classics that I can remember
my mother listening to on the radio in the background when I was very young.


Pete Seeger - If I Had A Hammer.. (1956)

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This particular rendition was way back on 1968 in Stockholm. It is a folk song
written by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson in 1961. Seeger found inspiration for the
song while on his way to a concert. In his notebook he saw these lines, "Where are
the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken
husbands. Where are the men, they're all in the army." , which were taken from a
Don Cossacks folk song mentioned in the Mikhail Sholokhov 1934 novel "And Quiet
Flows the Don". Seeger adapted it to a folk tune and with only three verses, he
recorded it once in a medley on a Rainbow Quest album. Joe Hickerson later added
verses four and five. It was first sung by Marlene Dietrich in French (as "Qui peut
dire où vont les fleurs?") in 1962 at a UNICEF concert. She also recorded the song
in English and in German, the latter titled "Sag' mir, wo die Blumen sind".

Lyrics :

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 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,
gone to young men 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 to 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,
Gone to flowers every one
When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn

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US folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, whose songs included Turn! Turn! Turn!
and If I Had A Hammer, has died at the age of 94.He died at a New York hospital
after a short illness, his grandson said.Seeger gained fame in The Weavers, formed
in 1948, and continued to perform in his own right in a career spanning six decades.

Renowned for his protest songs, Seeger was blacklisted by the US Government in
the 1950s for his leftist stance.

Denied broadcast exposure, Seeger toured US college campuses spreading his
music and ethos, later calling this the "most important job of my career".

He was quizzed by the Un-American Activities Committee in 1955 over whether he had
sung for Communists, replying that he "greatly resented" the implication that his work
made him any less American.Seeger was charged with contempt of Congress, but the
sentence was overturned on appeal.He returned to TV in the late 1960s but had a
protest song about the Vietnam War cut from broadcast.

The lofty, bearded banjo-playing musician became a standard bearer for political causes
from nuclear disarmament to the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.

In 2009, he was at a gala concert in the US capital ahead of Barack Obama's
inauguration as president.His predecessor Bill Clinton hailed him as "an inconvenient
artist who dared to sing things as he saw them.''Other songs that he co-wrote included
Where Have All The Flowers Gone, while he was credited with making We Shall
Overcome an anthem of resistance.

Turn! Turn! Turn! was made into a number one hit by The Byrds in 1965, and covered
by a multitude of other artists including Dolly Parton and Chris de Burgh.

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Pete Seeger (l) in 1975 Seeger (l) performed at a rally for detente in 1975

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Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen
honoured Seeger on his 90th birthday Seeger's influence continued down the
decades, with his induction into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and he
won a Grammy award in 1997 for best traditional folk album, with Pete.

He won a further two Grammys - another for best traditional folk album in 2008 for
At 89 and best children's album in 2010.

He was a nominee at Sunday night's ceremony in the spoken word category.

He was due to being honoured with the first Woody Guthrie Prize next month, given
to an artist emulating the spirit of the musician's work.

Musician Billy Bragg paid tribute to Seeger's life via Twitter: "Pete Seeger towered
over the folk scene like a mighty redwood for 75 years. He travelled with Woody
Guthrie in the 1940s, stood up to Joe McCarthy in the 50s, marched with Dr Martin
Luther King in the 60s.

"His songs will be sung wherever people struggle for their rights. We shall
overcome."


'Living archive'

Seeger performed with Guthrie in his early years, and went on to have an effect on
the protest music of later artists including Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez.

In 2006, Springsteen recorded an album of songs originally sung by Seeger.

On his 90th birthday, Seeger was feted by artists including Springsteen, Eddie
Vedder and Dave Matthews in New York's Madison Square Garden.

Springsteen called him "a living archive of America's music and conscience, a
testament of the power of song and culture to nudge history along".

His other musical output included albums for children, while appeared on screen
several times as well.

A reunion concert with The Weavers in 1980 was made into a documentary, while
an early appearance was in To hear My Banjo Play in 1946.

The band, who had a number one hit with Good Night, Irene in the early 1950s,
went their separate ways soon afterwards.

Seeger's wife Toshi, a film-maker and activist, died aged 91 in July 2013. They
leave three children.

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Pete Seeger - "Forever Young"

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From "Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of
Amnesty International". http://amnestyusa.org/chimes Buy this track now!
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http://youtu.be/PW4XxX06AmA And visit: http://www.ForeverPete.com
Music: Produced by Martin Lewis & Mark Hudson. Video: Produced by
Martin Lewis. Filmed by Jake Clennell. Edited by Peter Shelton.

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Turn Turn Turn Pete Seeger Live Jan 2010

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I shot this for a Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in Kingston, New York on January
18, 2010. Here Pete Seeger performs Turn, Turn, Turn, a song he wrote and was
made famous by the Byrds.


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'He dared to sing things as he saw them': Iconic folk music crooner and activist
Pete Seeger dies at age 94

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 09:00, 28 January 2014 | UPDATED: 14:08, 28 January 2014


Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college
students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of
Americans to their folk music heritage, died on Monday at the age of 94.
Seeger's grandson, Katama Cahill-Jackson said his grandfather died at New York
Presbyterian Hospital, where he'd been for six days.

'He was chopping wood 10 days ago,' he said.

Folk music legend: Pete Seeger, shown in a 1967 file photo, died on Monday at age
94 in a New York City hospital.Seeger - with his lanky frame, banjo and full white
beard - was an iconic figure in folk music. He performed with the great minstrel
Woody Guthrie in his younger days and marched with Occupy Wall Street
protesters in his 90s, leaning on two canes.

He wrote or co-wrote If I Had a Hammer, Turn, Turn, Turn, Where Have All the
Flowers Gone and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. He lent his voice against Hitler and
nuclear power. A cheerful warrior, he typically delivered his broadsides with an
affable air and his banjo strapped on.

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'Be wary of great leaders,' he told The Associated Press two days after a 2011
Manhattan Occupy march. 'Hope that there are many, many small leaders.'

With the quartet The Weavers, organized in 1948, Seeger helped set the stage for a
national folk revival. The group - Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred
Hellerman - churned out hit recordings of Goodnight Irene,' Tzena, Tzena and On
Top Of Old Smokey.

Seeger also was credited with popularizing We Shall Overcome, which he printed in
his publication People's Song, in 1948. He later said his only contribution to the
anthem of the civil rights movement was changing the second word from 'will'
to 'shall,' which he said 'opens up the mouth better.'

'Every kid who ever sat around a campfire singing an old song is indebted in some
way to Pete Seeger,' Arlo Guthrie once said.

His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he
advocated for causes ranging from civil rights to the cleanup of his beloved Hudson
River. Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced it.
But the association dogged him for years.



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Folk group: Pete, far left, is shown in 1952 with his folk music group The Weavers
including Lee Hayes, Fred Halterman and Ronnie Gilbert

He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with
the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the
committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded
sharply: 'I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that
some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and
some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a
vegetarian, make me any less of an American.'

He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.

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Congressional inquiry: Pete is shown in an undated file photo arriving at a Federal
Court with his guitar over his shoulder after tangling with the House Un-American
Activities Committee.Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast
exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road touring college
campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter and
others had created or preserved.


'The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college,
one after the other, usually small ones,' he told The Associated Press in 2006. ' ...
And I showed the kids there's a lot of great music in this country they never played
on the radio.'

His scheduled return to commercial network television on the highly rated
Smothers Brothers variety show in 1967 was hailed as a nail in the coffin of the
blacklist. But CBS cut out his Vietnam protest song, Waist Deep In The Big Muddy,
and Seeger accused the network of censorship.

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Spreading the music: Pete is shown playing the five-string banjo in 1957 at the
25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee


He finally got to sing it five months later in a stirring return appearance, although
one station, in Detroit, cut the song's last stanza: 'Now every time I read the
papers/That old feelin' comes on/We're waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big
fool says to push on.'

Seeger's output included dozens of albums and single records for adults and children.

He also was the author or co-author of American Favorite Ballads, The Bells Of
Rhymney, How To Play The Five-String Banjo, Henscratches and Flyspecks, The
Incompleat Folksinger, The Foolish Frog and Abiyoyo, Carry It On, Everybody Says
Freedom and Where Have All the Flowers Gone.

He appeared in the movies To Hear My Banjo Play in 1946 and Tell Me That You
Love Me, Junie Moon in 1970. A reunion concert of the original Weavers in 1980
was filmed as a documentary titled Wasn't That A Time.


By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with
a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honors.

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Music legend: Pete posed with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2003 at Columbia
University in New York

Official Washington sang along - the audience must sing, was the rule at a Seeger
concert - when it lionized him at the Kennedy Center in 1994. President Clinton
hailed him as 'an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them.'

Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as an early
influence. Ten years later, Bruce Springsteen honored him with We Shall
Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a rollicking reinterpretation of songs sung by
Seeger. While pleased with the album, Seeger said he wished it was 'more serious.'


A 2009 concert at Madison Square Garden to mark Seeger's 90th birthday featured
Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder and Emmylou Harris among the
performers.Seeger was a 2014 Grammy Awards nominee in the Best Spoken Word
category, which was won by Stephen Colbert.


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Top honour: President Bill Clinton presented Pete with a National Medal of Arts in
October 1994 in Washington, DC


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Music ambassador: Pete performed in 2009 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage
Festival in LouisianaSeeger's sometimes ambivalent relationship with rock was most
famously on display when Dylan 'went electric' at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.


Witnesses say Seeger became furious backstage as the amped-up band played,
though just how furious is debated. Seeger dismissed the legendary tale that he
looked for an ax to cut Dylan's sound cable, and said his objection was not to the
type of music but only that the guitar mix was so loud you couldn't hear Dylan's words.


Seeger maintained his reedy 6-foot-2 frame into old age, though he wore a hearing
aid and conceded that his voice was pretty much shot. He relied on his audiences to
make up for his diminished voice, feeding his listeners the lines and letting them
sing out.'I can't sing much,' he said. 'I used to sing high and low. Now I have a
growl somewhere in between.'


Nonetheless, in 1997 he won a Grammy for best traditional folk album for Pete.
Modern influence: Oscar Isaac performs as a folk singer in the film Inside Llewyn
Davis that the Coen Brothers said was influenced, in part, by the works of Pete Seeger

Seeger was born in New York City on May 3, 1919, into an artistic family whose
roots traced to religious dissenters of colonial America. His mother, Constance,
played violin and taught; his father, Charles, a musicologist, was a consultant to
the Resettlement Administration, which gave artists work during the Depression.

His uncle Alan Seeger, the poet, wrote I Have A Rendezvous With Death.


Pete Seeger said he fell in love with folk music when he was 16, at a music festival
in North Carolina in 1935. His half brother, Mike Seeger, and half sister, Peggy
Seeger, also became noted performers.


Musical influence: Pete was welcomed on stage by John Mellencamp at the Farm
Aid 2013 concert in New York

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He learned the five-string banjo, an instrument he rescued from obscurity and
played the rest of his life in a long-necked version of his own design. On the skin of
Seeger's banjo was the phrase, 'This machine surrounds hate and forces it to
surrender' - a nod to his old pal Guthrie, who emblazoned his guitar with 'This
machine kills fascists.'

Dropping out of Harvard in 1938 after two years as a disillusioned sociology major,
he hit the road, picking up folk tunes as he hitchhiked or hopped freights.

'The sociology professor said, ''Don't think that you can change the world. The only
thing you can do is study it,''' Seeger said in October 2011.Elderly entertainer: Pete
performed in December 2012 at the Bring Leonard Peltier Home concert in New
York CityIn 1940, with Guthrie and others, he was part of the Almanac Singers and
performed benefits for disaster relief and other causes.

He and Guthrie also toured migrant camps and union halls. He sang on overseas
radio broadcasts for the Office of War Information early in World War II. In the
Army, he spent three and a half years in Special Services, entertaining soldiers in
the South Pacific, and made corporal.Pete and Toshi Seeger were married July 20,
1943. The couple built their cabin in Beacon after World War II and stayed on the
high spot of land by the Hudson River for the rest of their lives together. The couple
raised three children. Toshi Seeger died in July at age 91.


Paying tribute: Pete released the album Pete Remembers Woody in 2012 in honour
of the late Woody Guthrie who influenced his career

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The Hudson River was a particular concern of Seeger. He took the sloop Clearwater,
built by volunteers in 1969, up and down the Hudson, singing to raise money to
clean the water and fight polluters.

He also offered his voice in opposition to racism and the death penalty. He got
himself jailed for five days for blocking traffic in Albany in 1988 in support of
Tawana Brawley, a black teenager whose claim of having been raped by white men
was later discredited. He continued to take part in peace protests during the war in
Iraq, and he continued to lend his name to causes.


'Can't prove a damn thing, but I look upon myself as old grandpa,' Seeger told the
AP in 2008 when asked to reflect on his legacy. 'There's not dozens of people now
doing what I try to do, not hundreds, but literally thousands. ... The idea of using
music to try to get the world together is now all over the place.'

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American stars: Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Pete and seated from left, director
Harold Prince and composer Morton Gould were recipients of the Kennedy Center
Honors in 1994


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[dsldog]

Pete is a legend. One of my earliest memories of listening to folk music is, Where Have All The Flowers Gone. My cousin wasa teenager, and a folkie. We used to hang in her bedroom and I'd just listen. I must have been about 7-8 at the time. I'll sure miss him. --jc

[MorningSong]

Rest in Peace, Pete! You were a fine warrior!

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Thousands of Norwegians in Youngstorget Square singing Pete Seeger's "My Rainbow Race"


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Tens of thousands of people took part in a "rose rally" in central Oslo as a tribute to
the 77 victims of the attacks carried out by extremist Anders Berhring Breivik in
July last year.

I could not find any Youtube showing this amazing gathering of solidarity by the
people of Norway. I decided to take a chance by making a copy to share with
Canadians and North Americans - This is a non profit citizen report passed on my
me to viewers in the Youtube community. If copyright rules are in question then I
will remove this youtube respectfully but I hope with respect to free speech,
freedom of expression and freedom of the (citizen) press this one Youtube might
stay up. It inspires hope, and shows the goodness all we humans can be. R.D.B.

[Cidersomerset]

Rest in Peace, Pete! You were a fine warrior!
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Thanks morningsong I was looking for this, watching now cheers.....


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Let us not ever loose this spirit that Pete and friends brought to us...

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This truly is the heart of all of the Americas.

Peace be with you!

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Actually I did not realise what a great 'HUMANE' being Pete was,
although he served uncle Sam in WW11 he was not afraid to
speak out against the wasted generation of Vietnam and call
for troops to be brought home. He was an activist to the end
and brought a smile to everyone he met with his music.....


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Cleaning Up a Toxic Mess from the Hudson River

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NRDC's Larry Levine describes the successful, decades-long battle
to clean up General Electric's toxic PCBs from the Hudson River
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Pete Seeger: Sloops of the Hudson by Mark McCarroll (trailer)

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Trailer for documentary about two not-for-profit environmental
organizations founded by Pete to protect and restore the polluted
Hudson River. Learn how pot luck dinners,waterfront festivals,
volunteers,sloops, and song circles changed the course of a river
and created an environmental movement.



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Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Part 1
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This is Part 1 of a two-part film series created by 4-H Filmmaking. In their words ...
"The Clearwater boat and its crew get people out on the water and teach about the
river and the issues the river faces with pollution. In featuring the Clearwater boat
the video overviews how rivers become polluted and the effects of pollution on the
environment and people. The video also discusses ways for people to decrease
pollution in their own water sources."

[Cidersomerset]

This is a version for German TV but in English with German subtitle,
Its a lovely documentary spanning half a century of friends hip & song.


The Weavers Wasn't That A Time A Documentation

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[brenie]

Hi Cider, another good comrade leaves us, what a character.
Thanks for loading this good material, it's a long time since I had a Pete Seeger session, passed the evening on nicely.
Brings back many memories.

[Cidersomerset]

Hi Cider, another good comrade leaves us, what a character.
Thanks for loading this good material, it's a long time since I had a Pete Seeger session, passed the evening on nicely.
Brings back many memories.

I know what a humble man......joining others spirits for an 'Astral concert'


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President Obama pays tribute to US folk singer Seeger


US President Obama has paid tribute to the American folk
singer and activist Pete Seeger, who has died following a
short illness at the age of 94.

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President Obama said "we will always be grateful to Pete Seeger"

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Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land

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Today, May 3 2009, is Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. I can't make the big
concert at Madison Square Garden to celebrate it, so this is my small
tribute to him, an amazing man with an amazing wife, and an amazing
life. This was performed at the "We Are One" Presidential Inaugural
Concert, January 19, 2009.

[Camilo]

Pete Seeger was a true poet. Farewell to you big guy.

[Ellisa]

One of the best-- now gone forever. His songs were inspiring and his voice was true on every level.

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Icon, activist and folk singer: Pete Seeger dies aged 94

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[gnostic9]

A man of the people with simple views on how you should treat one and other
with equality & respect, in times echoing today when greedy egotistic puppets
ran and still run corporate America. Thru establishment prejudice and sanctions
he helped revive the American folk singing movement spawning the 60's generation
of free thinking folk artists and helping the black movement for equality in a
still significantly prejudice country particularly in some southern states..

Pete Seeger. The Power of Song (2007) by PBS American Masters (full version)

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I challenge you not to shed a tear of joy at these old classics that I can remember
my mother listening to on the radio in the background when I was very young.


Pete Seeger - If I Had A Hammer.. (1956)

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This particular rendition was way back on 1968 in Stockholm. It is a folk song
written by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson in 1961. Seeger found inspiration for the
song while on his way to a concert. In his notebook he saw these lines, "Where are
the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken
husbands. Where are the men, they're all in the army." , which were taken from a
Don Cossacks folk song mentioned in the Mikhail Sholokhov 1934 novel "And Quiet
Flows the Don". Seeger adapted it to a folk tune and with only three verses, he
recorded it once in a medley on a Rainbow Quest album. Joe Hickerson later added
verses four and five. It was first sung by Marlene Dietrich in French (as "Qui peut
dire où vont les fleurs?") in 1962 at a UNICEF concert. She also recorded the song
in English and in German, the latter titled "Sag' mir, wo die Blumen sind".

Lyrics :

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 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,
gone to young men 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 to 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,
Gone to flowers every one
When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn

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28 January 2014 Last updated at 09:00

Pete Seeger: US folk singer and activist dies aged 94
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US folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, whose songs included Turn! Turn! Turn!
and If I Had A Hammer, has died at the age of 94.He died at a New York hospital
after a short illness, his grandson said.Seeger gained fame in The Weavers, formed
in 1948, and continued to perform in his own right in a career spanning six decades.

Renowned for his protest songs, Seeger was blacklisted by the US Government in
the 1950s for his leftist stance.

Denied broadcast exposure, Seeger toured US college campuses spreading his
music and ethos, later calling this the "most important job of my career".

He was quizzed by the Un-American Activities Committee in 1955 over whether he had
sung for Communists, replying that he "greatly resented" the implication that his work
made him any less American.Seeger was charged with contempt of Congress, but the
sentence was overturned on appeal.He returned to TV in the late 1960s but had a
protest song about the Vietnam War cut from broadcast.

The lofty, bearded banjo-playing musician became a standard bearer for political causes
from nuclear disarmament to the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.

In 2009, he was at a gala concert in the US capital ahead of Barack Obama's
inauguration as president.His predecessor Bill Clinton hailed him as "an inconvenient
artist who dared to sing things as he saw them.''Other songs that he co-wrote included
Where Have All The Flowers Gone, while he was credited with making We Shall
Overcome an anthem of resistance.

Turn! Turn! Turn! was made into a number one hit by The Byrds in 1965, and covered
by a multitude of other artists including Dolly Parton and Chris de Burgh.

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Pete Seeger (l) in 1975 Seeger (l) performed at a rally for detente in 1975

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Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen
honoured Seeger on his 90th birthday Seeger's influence continued down the
decades, with his induction into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and he
won a Grammy award in 1997 for best traditional folk album, with Pete.

He won a further two Grammys - another for best traditional folk album in 2008 for
At 89 and best children's album in 2010.

He was a nominee at Sunday night's ceremony in the spoken word category.

He was due to being honoured with the first Woody Guthrie Prize next month, given
to an artist emulating the spirit of the musician's work.

Musician Billy Bragg paid tribute to Seeger's life via Twitter: "Pete Seeger towered
over the folk scene like a mighty redwood for 75 years. He travelled with Woody
Guthrie in the 1940s, stood up to Joe McCarthy in the 50s, marched with Dr Martin
Luther King in the 60s.

"His songs will be sung wherever people struggle for their rights. We shall
overcome."


'Living archive'

Seeger performed with Guthrie in his early years, and went on to have an effect on
the protest music of later artists including Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez.

In 2006, Springsteen recorded an album of songs originally sung by Seeger.

On his 90th birthday, Seeger was feted by artists including Springsteen, Eddie
Vedder and Dave Matthews in New York's Madison Square Garden.

Springsteen called him "a living archive of America's music and conscience, a
testament of the power of song and culture to nudge history along".

His other musical output included albums for children, while appeared on screen
several times as well.

A reunion concert with The Weavers in 1980 was made into a documentary, while
an early appearance was in To hear My Banjo Play in 1946.

The band, who had a number one hit with Good Night, Irene in the early 1950s,
went their separate ways soon afterwards.

Seeger's wife Toshi, a film-maker and activist, died aged 91 in July 2013. They
leave three children.

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Pete Seeger- " My Rainbow Race" 1971

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Thank you so much cidersomerset! I watched "the power of song" I cried, I knew little of the mans life, apart from a few songs i heard. He was a beautiful soul, his truth touches the heart and roots the spirit. may his soul always remain in bliss, wherever his journey takes him!

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BBC News Pete Seeger, US folk singer, dies aged 94

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Published on 28 Jan 2014


The veteran American folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has died aged 94.

He spent seven decades performing and demonstrating - working with the
US civil rights movement, environmental groups, and most recently taking
part in the Occupy Wall Street protests.

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NEWSNIGHT: Frank Turner tribute to Pete Seeger, 'We Shall Overcome'

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Published on 28 Jan 2014


Musician Frank Turner performs "We Shall Overcome" as a tribute to
American singer Pete Seeger who died aged 94.

Seeger gained fame in The Weavers, formed in 1948, and continued
to perform in his own right in a career spanning six decades. He was
reknowned for his protest songs, and is credited with popularizing
the song 'We Shall Overcome.'

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Better give the last songs to the man himself..

pete seeger which side are you on ,,,,,Tribute to miners...

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Pete Seeger - The Bells Of Rhymney - Live in Australia 1964

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A song adapted from a poem about the miners of south Wales UK

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Pete Seeger - Michael Row The Boat Ashore

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Live in 1963. Melbourne. Very well known song. Note that at this
time Pete was being looked down on back home in America.



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Little Boxes by Pete Seeger

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[Mike Gorman]

Pete is a legend. One of my earliest memories of listening to folk music is, Where Have All The Flowers Gone. My cousin wasa teenager, and a folkie. We used to hang in her bedroom and I'd just listen. I must have been about 7-8 at the time. I'll sure miss him. --jc

Pretty well echoes my own experience, I first heard Pete on the good old valve Radio we had, and 'Where Have All The flowers Gone' struck me with its haunting simplicity-it starkly spoke to me, and taught me to feel.
I had a great love of music from my earliest times-these homages to Pete Seeger are truly wonderful, brilliant job guys, and wow, another massive figure of our times has passed; time is getting short,
somehow these days with all their colossal significance are pointing the way.

[Fellow Aspirant]

Couldn't agree more, Cidersomerset!

One of the world's brightest lights faded to dark yesterday with the passing of Pete Seeger. He spent his life using his prodigious talents to unite people in love and goodness, battling the PTB and awakening every listener to injustice and evil manipulation. Although he was deceptively gentle in his demeanour, his music, his songs and his powerful 'sing-a-longs' brought his audiences to share in their common wisdom and yearning for a better future. He was a courageous agent for change, and his impact on our society will not fade as long as we can listen to his thoughts, recorded over the span of more than 70 years.

Here's a link to a recent CBC program, based on an extensive interview; it's rife with his music and his penetrating observations. It may bring you to tears as you listen to it and perceive the beauty of his soul. Quite a guy.

Here you go ...

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/popupaudio.h...Ids=2433299775

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From "Communist Traitor" to "Conscience of the Nation".

That's the walk that sometimes happens to personal truth speakers.

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I know which side I'm on.

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