On 8/7/02, Bill McCarthy wrote:
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>(A parallel: Where have All the Flowers Gone is a song that goes in a
>perfect circle. It is not necessarily based on some other song, of which
>there are many, such as My Name is Jon Jonson, that goes in a perfect
>circle .)
Minor point: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" *is* derived from
another such song. Pete Seeger explained that he found an item
quoted in (I believe) _And Quiet Flows the Don_ which gave him
the idea for the English-language song.
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