A folk song from the 1960s with a powerful anti-war message. A circular song with a slow and lilting refrain which shows the futility of war – girls pick flowers, they find partners, the men go to war and come back to graveyards which get covered in flowers.

Seeger, who was deeply influenced by Russian folk music, was working through an obscure Russian text on his plane ride to Oberlin. His reading inspired the writing of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, which he first wrote and performed at Oberlin. Later, Hickerson would contribute the song's final two verses.