أين الزهور؟ أين الرجال؟

Where have all the flowers gone  (1961) is a folk song. The first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955, He was inspired by Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don, which is about Czarist Russia. Seeger's lyrics show how war and suffering can be cyclical in nature: girls pick flowers, men pick girls, men go to war and fill graves with their dead which get covered with flowers