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From: Robert B. Waltz <[log in to unmask]>
>(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.>>
Dorian-modal point: And Pete only made the song a half-circle; it was, I
believe, Joe Hickerson who added the last two verses that closed it.
Peace,
Paul
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