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Re: breathing death

From: dbk@cs.UMD.EDU (Dan Kozak)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 89 11:08:26 -0400
Subject: Re: breathing death

> Really-From: rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff)

> for the song "What a Piece of Work is Man".  And the Byrds(?) adapted
> a passage from Ecclesiastes for one of their songs (I'm not sure what
> the actual title was, but the chorus starts with "To everything, turn, turn,
> turn, there is a season, turn, turn turn").  I'm sure there have been others
> as well.  Of course, in the case of Shakespeare and Ecclesiastes, the
> copyright had expired!

While the hit version of "Turn, Turn, Turn" was recorded by the Byrds,
I'm almost certain that the song was written by Pete Seeger.

#dan

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