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How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Lyrics submitted by Jack, edited by Yazardshir, Mellow_Harsher
Track duration: 02:49
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The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
I was surprised that a young Dylanista had not realized that the song Strange Fruit would come to mind for anyone hearing the question in the song Blowing in the Wind, when it was a new song.
Times change.
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Postcards of the Hanging, indeed! 7 Breezes.
"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind"
Best lyrics of all time IMO
air in movement - and an element that binds us all....we all breath the same air and live on the same planet. We can see the answer, but we can not catch it and contain it...it's blowing in the wind.
"The answer is: blowing in the wind!"
not that I think that is an answer by the way ;)
very nice song though. (and I don't really think it's about grass.)
asking himself all these stupid questions and realized,
that, if he would ask and think further, he would get
seriously depressed. So he thought, the best would
be "blowing in the wind", but he couldn't leave the office.
So he stayed inside the office and asked his trainee ...
How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?
Yes, an' how many ears must ONE man have, before he can hear people cry?
Yes, an' how many deaths will it take until he knows that too many people have died?
Stop looking for God to solve or explain the follies of mankind. By noticing the sky instead of Heaven, that is the first step towards excepting responsibility and working towards a solution.
The ONE man was, and always will be, the President. In conflict, that position is always the target for the people's frustrations. Will Johnson or Nixon ever hear us?
How many American soliders and Vietnamese have to die before the President will save face and end the war, any war.
I'm sure that is not what Dylan was thinking but I was drawing those conclusions the other day.