WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE

TOVCHU MAK

 

Where have all the flowers gone ?

The girls have plucked them

Where are the girls?

They`ve all taken husbands

 

Where are the men ?

The`re all in the army 

Hard riding sturdy men

But where have all the flowers gone ?

 

The girls have plucked them

This is  what might have been

Hell for leather

Hard riding fighting men

---- Borrowed by

Eagle Cruagh

W"here 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."^[5] These lines were taken from the traditional Cossacks folk song "Tovchu, tovchu mak", referenced in the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), which

 

Reviews

[Bewitching Sensations]

Should be the men plucking them :(

[Eagle Cruagh]

I should have explained:
This, Tovchu, Tovchu Mak was an ancient song sung by the Russian
Cossaks. Pete Seeger rewrote it on a plane on the way back from
Russia and It became one of the most popular folk songs of the
fifties.

[Allyson Wolfe]

I enjoyed the simplicity and curiosity of the piece. Great write!

[patricia]

This is one of the songs I play on my Harmonica. So it was hard to review this interpretation without returning to the old. Enjoyed.

[Marie]

I know "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by the Kingston trio. I should have realized it was taken from a folk song. Very nice poem.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

well done I have never heard of that folk song Ill have to look for it on itunes

I liked it

[Emily Rae]

hopefully those plucked flowers were a sort of perennial, laughing...