S2 E4: Where have all the flowers gone? And the bees… the birds...

#peteseeger #composerintheattic #behindthemusic #FlowerTheGame Where have all the flowers gone…And the bees… the birds… the trees…The cities… and, if we are not careful… us. There’s a book titled The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman.It asks a simple question: if we vanished overnight, what would remain—and what would return. This song has been asking its own version of that question for a long time. “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” was written in 1955 by Pete Seeger, later shaped and carried forward by Joe Hickerson. It’s a folk song in the truest sense—plainspoken, circular, and patient.