Songs to remember Seeger by

Five essential songs by Pete Seeger:

• “ If I Had a Hammer”: An all-time singalong co-written in 1949 by Seeger and Lee Hays and released a year later by the Weavers. Popularized in the 1960s by Peter, Paul and Mary, the song was performed countless times, all over the world.

• “ Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”: An anti-war song written in 1967 about a platoon and its doomed, gung-ho captain in Louisiana in the 1940s. “Waist Deep” was censored by CBS producers when Seeger performed it on “The Smothers Brother Comedy Hour” in September 1967.

• “ Turn! Turn! Turn!”: Seeger adapted language from the book of Ecclesiastes for this plea for peace that became a No. 1 hit for the Byrds in the 1960s.

• “ The Bells of Rhymney”: Adapted by Seeger from a Welsh poem about a mining accident and again covered by the Byrds.

• “ Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”: An anti-war anthem inspired in the 1950s by words Seeger came upon in a Cossacks folk song. Additional lyrics were written by Joe Hickerson in 1960.

Associated Press