conprov lyrics Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (Written by Peter Seeger)

"Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young girls, 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?
And where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, a long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone
Gone to graveyards, every one!
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
And 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, oh when will they ever learn?"

The song was inspired by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quiet Flows the Don" with additional verses by Joe Hickerson. Four Russians have won the Nobel Prize for Literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1933), almost unknown today; Boris Pasternak (1958), best known for "Doctor Zhivago," declined the award for fear of loosing his citizenship if he traveled to Sweden; Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1965), little known today; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970), arguably the most well known.