TURN TURN TURN
Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There is a Season)”, often abbreviated to “Turn! Turn!
Turn!” is a song adapted entirely from the the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible (with the
exception of the last line) and composed to music by Pete Seeger in the 1950s. Seeger
waited until 1962 to record it, releasing the song on his album “The Bitter and The
Sweet” on Columbia Records.
The Biblical text posits there being a time and place for all things: laughter and sorrow,
healing and killing, war and peace, and so on. The lines are open to a myriad of
interpretations, but as a song they are commonly performed as a plea for world peace,
with stress on the closing line: “a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late,” the latter
phrase being the only part of the lyric written by Seeger himself. The song is one of a few
mainstream songs to set a large portion of scripture to music, other examples being The
Melodians‘ “Rivers of Babylon“, Sister Janet Mead‘s “The Lord’s Prayer (Sister Janet
Mead song)” and U2‘s ““40”“.
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven
A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven
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