<Tr> <Th> Composer (s) </Th> <Td> Pete Seeger </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Lyricist (s) </Th> <Td> Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson </Td> </Tr> <P> "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a modern folk - style song . The melody and the first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955 and published in Sing Out! magazine . Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, who turned it into a circular song . Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the ubi sunt tradition . In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political Songs". </P> <P> The 1964 release of the song as a Columbia Records 45 single, 13 - 33088, by Pete Seeger was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 in the Folk category . </P>

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