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To Everything There Is A Season
This is a famous song "To everything/Turn, turn, turn/There is a
season/Turn, turn, turn" of the 70s. I forget who sang it (Jefferson
Airplane, maybe?) because I'm not a child of the 70's. Anyway, the song
takes quite a bit from a section of the Bible: "There is an appointed
time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven:
A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to
uproot what is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear
down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time
to mourn and a time to dance. ... A time to love and a time to hate; a
time to war and a time for peace." (Ecc 3:1-8) (NOTE: This was also
quoted in the movie "Footloose" with Kevin Bacon).
This is from a site visitor:
In case anyone wants to know, here's a clarification on an idiom listed
on the idiomsite.com page. "To everything there is a season"
is a line from a song that the Byrds recorded in 1965 (not Jefferson Airplane
in the '70's). The song was written by the famous folk singer, Pete Seeger,
and comes from Chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes in the bible. Roger McGuinn of
the Byrds arranged it for a Judy Collins album in 1963, and then the Byrds
had their first hit with the song in 1965.
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