<P> `` Turn ! Turn ! Turn ! ( To Everything There Is a Season ) '' , or simply `` Turn ! Turn ! Turn ! '' , is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s . 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 version of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes . The song was originally released in 1962 as `` To Everything There Is a Season '' on the Limeliters ' album Folk Matinee and then some months later on Seeger 's own The Bitter and the Sweet . </P>
<P> `` Turn ! Turn ! Turn ! ( To Everything There Is a Season ) '' , or simply `` Turn ! Turn ! Turn ! '' , is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s . 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 version of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes . The song was originally released in 1962 as `` To Everything There Is a Season '' on the Limeliters ' album Folk Matinee and then some months later on Seeger 's own The Bitter and the Sweet . </P>
what bible verse is the song turn turn turn from
what bible verse is the song turn turn turn from
first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes
first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes