I've always thought that the song suggests a correlation between the girls picking the flowers and the husbands going off to be soldiers, but not that it implies causation.
I'm slightly boggled that nineveh_uk's school considered Pete Seeger songs to be hymns, too!
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Date: 2011-11-17 07:14 pm (UTC)I'm slightly boggled that nineveh_uk's school considered Pete Seeger songs to be hymns, too!