With dazzling, lyrical verse in the folk revival style, Colin Meloy pays tribute to Pete Seeger, a visionary who changed the world with song.
Pete Seeger once sang that if he had a golden thread, he would use it to weave people from all over the world to one another. That golden thread, for Pete, was music.
Born into a family of traveling musicians, Pete picked up his first instrument at age seven. From then on, music was his life, whether he was playing banjo for soldiers during World War II, rallying civil rights activists and war protesters with songs such as âWe Shall Overcome,â âWhere Have All the Flowers Gone?,â and âIf I Had a Hammer,â or leading environmental efforts to clean up the Hudson River.
For decades, Pete Seegerâs messages of universal understanding and social and environmental justice inspired generationsâand have left a lasting legacy.