Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Seeger akanga ataurwa zvisizvo kuti akafa pashure peHondo yeChampagne
muna October 1915, kwaakanga arwa. Mashoko orufu rwake chairwoirwo akasangana nokuchema kwavose vari vaviri muAmerica neFrance. Pashure pokunge USA yapinda muHondo Yenyika I, "Nhetembo", muunganidzwa wenhetembo dzehondo dzaSeeger dzakabudiswa pashure porufu rwake, dzakatengeswa kunze kwamagazini matanhatu mugore rimwe. Munyori wenhetembo Edwin Arlington Robinson, uyo akanga arondedzera Seeger se"mufariri wezvinofadza" pashure pokunge asangana naye muna 1911, akataura kuti zvingava zvakanakisisa kuti akanga afa muhondo, "nokuti handitendi kuti angadai akambosvika pedyo nokuzvibatanidza amene munyika ino inofadza asi pane dzimwe nguva isingawirirani".