Actually, the perfect circularity of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" was
added by a young Joe Hickerson, who wrote at least the final verse.
"Robert B. Waltz" wrote:
> On 8/7/02, Bill McCarthy wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> >(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.
>
> --
> Bob Waltz
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> "The one thing we learn from history --
> is that no one ever learns from history."
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