Everything Has Its Time

Everything Has Its Time

Relatively early in the Vietnam War, folk singer Pete Seeger wrote a song called “Turn! Turn! Turn!” with the closing line, “I swear it’s not too late.” Everything else in the song comes from the poem in Ecclesiastes 3, lightly rearranged. In the 1960s, when the war was escalating, the Byrds made the definitive recording of the song, which reached number one in the United States, though made only
the top thirty in Britain…