I COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR

Created on 20/03/2002
Latest update on 02/01/2024

Artist: Pete Seeger
Author: Nazim Hikmet/Jeanette Turner/James Walters/Pete Seeger
Label: Folkways
Year: 1962

At the end of the fifties Jeanette Turner gave Pete an English translation of a Turkish anti-war poem by Nazim Hikmet. In good old folk tradition Pete put an existing melody underneath: James Waters' ballad The Great Silkie, cut by Judy Collins.

Covers:

1966:

Byrds

1966:

Harvey Andrews [as Children Of Hiroshima]

1967:

Misunderstood [same lyrics in I Unseen, B-side of Children Of The Sun and reissued on Cherry Red comp Pillows And Prayers]

1991:

This Mortal Coil

1993:

Faith & Disease

1997:

Anne Hills [on tribute The Songs Of Pete Seeger]

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