<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>
when was where have all the flowers gone written
1955