* Written and composed by Dick Blakeslee, in Chicago.In late 1947 or early 1948, he and Dick Crolley sent a home-cut disc of their compositions to People’s Songs in New York. Blakeslee’s “Passing Through” was chosen for publication. Pete Seeger learned the song and sang it during Henry Wallace’s entire 1948 presidential campaign. It was later recorded by Leonard Cohen (1973).
