Discover the story of the song > Where Have All the Flowers Gone – Peter, Paul and Mary

The song talks about the cycle of life and how everything eventually comes to an end. The protagonist asks where all the flowers have gone, and it turns out they have been picked by young girls. Then the young girls also disappear because they get married, and their husbands disappear because they become soldiers. Finally, the soldiers all die and are buried in graveyards, but even those graveyards eventually turn into flowers. The protagonist ends by asking when people will ever learn from this cycle and stop going to war.