Are you familiar with the song turn turn turn?”
Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There is a Season)”, often abbreviated to “Turn! Turn! Turn!”, is a song adapted entirely from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible (with the exception of the last line) and composed to music by Pete Seeger in 1959. Seeger waited until 1962 to record it, releasing the song on his album The Bitter and The Sweet on Columbia Records. The Biblical text posits there being a time and place for all things: laughter and sorrow, healing and killing, war and peace, and so on. The lines are open to myriad interpretations, but as a song they are commonly performed as a plea for world peace, with stress on the closing line: “a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late,” the latter phrase and the title phrase “Turn! Turn! Turn!” being the only parts of the lyric written by Seeger himself. The song is one of a few mainstream songs to set a large portion of scripture to music, other examples being The Melodians’ “Rivers of Babylon”, Sister Janet Mead’s “The Lord’s Pra
Here’s a bit about the song. I was unaware Pete Seeger wrote it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn!_Turn!_Turn!_(to_Everything_There_Is_a_Season) “Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There is a Season)”, often abbreviated to “Turn! Turn! Turn!”, is a song adapted entirely from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible (with the exception of the last line) and composed to music by Pete Seeger in 1959. Seeger waited until 1962 to record it, releasing the song on his album The Bitter and The Sweet on Columbia Records. The most successful recorded version of the song is the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit single by McGuinn’s pioneering folk-rock band The Byrds, released in October 1965 (b/w “She Don’t Care About Time” Columbia 43424). In December, it became the title song to the group’s second studio album. The group performed it in the 1966 concert film The Big T.N.T. Show. Nearly three dec
