Marlene Dietrich : Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsV59qnqZp0

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

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It is, and Maria Riva's book is well worth the read.

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I spent my childhood at the Regency. And the Theatre 80 St. Marks.

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Well, DUH.

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looooong tiiiiiime passsing!

Later in life, we all become caricatures of ourselves. JohnBoy became one long time passing ago.

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Updated On: 1/24/08 at 07:38 AM

PalJoey, I suppose you're right, dahling.

There was a PBS doc not too long ago about Marlene and her contributions during WWII--they showed a clip of her singing "Flowers" in Israel in German, which was quite risky and risque at the time--it's very moving.

I don't think she became campy at all--I think she was just tryng to hold onto her glamour and mystique--and I see nothing wrong with that--it's old Hollywood, baby.

Did he get to see her tape her face? She had a system of tape and strings she used to pull up the wrinkles and hide them under a wig....

There's such a gut-level feeling when she sings "When will they ever learn", that you don't get when Pete Seeger or other folk singers sing it that raises it to an art song.

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In the same doc I saw about her, they spoke of her conflict about raising money for war bonds for weapons that would have been used on her mother and her family in her country. To have a woman like that (who spent more time in the war zone than many enlisted men) sing that song in front of a Jewish audience, some of whom likely survived the Holocaust....wow indeed.

i dont understand how one person could harm another after hearing that.

I went to her grave in Berlin. It is very unassuming.

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