Friday, 5 June 2020

"TURN! TURN! TURN! (TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON)", A SONG WRITTEN BY PETE SEEGER IN THE LATE 1950S, WHICH THE BYRDS SCORED A 1965 HIT AND HOLDS THE DISTINCTION AS THE US #1 HIT WITH THE OLDEST LYRICS, AND ALSO WITH THE OLDEST LYRIC WRITER, KING SOLOMON OF ISRAEL. THE LYRICS, EXCEPT FOR THE TITLE WHICH IS REPEATED THROUGHOUT THE SONG AND THE FINAL TWO LINES, ARE ADAPTED WORD-FOR-WORD FROM THE ENGLISH KING JAMES VERSION OF ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8