I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

"He wasn't fancy" Seeger reported after his death "He was just straightforward. He made a successful professional début at the New York City Town Hall in January 1943 during a blizzard and in 1945 had a radio show Tom Glazer's Ballad Box. Glazer recorded a number of children's records in the late 1940s and early 1950s with Young People's Records Inc.

Thomas Zachariah "Tom" Glazer (September 2 1914 – February 21 2003) was an American folk singer and songwriter known primarily as a composer of ballads including: "Because All Men Are Brothers" recorded by The Weavers and Peter Paul and Mary "Talking Inflation Blues" recorded by Bob Dylan and "A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore".