Where Have All the Flowers Gone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tqtvxG8O4

Where Have All the Flowers Gone

a paragraph explaining why my chosen song is considered folklore
: My chosen song is considered as folklore because Where Have All the Flowers Gone is a folk song by the artist Pete Seeger who was inspired by Cossack's ballad. Ballads are usually structured around repetition, most often with an alternating pattern of verses and a repeated refrain. In the lyrics of the song, repetition like "Where have all the flowers gone?", "When will they ever learn?", "long time passing", "long time ago" and the only alternation are the flowers, young girls, young men, soldiers, and graveyards. Moreover, ballads are any traditional song that recounts a narrative which in the lyrics, it narrates a story from flowers to young girls, from young girls to young men, from young men to the soldiers, from the soldiers to the graveyards, and finally from graveyards back to flowers; it is like passing generations to the next and the next. Which the folklore is also passing through generations.  

personal critique of the song: As it states on the book Living Folklore, "folklore is a way of understanding people and the wide range of creative ways we express who we are and what we value and believe". The folklore is passing through generations and generations; like the song itself, it is passing from one subject to another one in the lyrics. The rhythm of the song is lethargic+pessimistic because it is a way that the artist express what he values. He probably narrated the song as in the summer, time goes slow and leisure; flowers blossom; however, he believed that it is not only summer, but also during the wars. 
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?