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Pete Seeger

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To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose under heaven.
--
"Turn! Turn! Turn!" (1954); a song which adapts a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes to music, with a few additional lyrics.

 
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