Released: May 27, 1963
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: John Hammond Tom Wilson (producer)
[Verse 1]
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
[Refrain]
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
[Verse 2]
Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
[Refrain]
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
[Verse 3]
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
[Refrain]
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
[Refrain]
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
[Verse 2]
Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
[Refrain]
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
[Verse 3]
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
[Refrain]
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
more tracks from the album
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue
- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
- Mama, You Been on My Mind
- Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You
- I Shall Be Released
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- Sara
- Romance in Durango
- Oh, Sister
- One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
- Isis
- Tangled Up in Blue
- It Ain’t Me Babe
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- Hurricane
- Simple Twist of Fate
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Just Like a Woman
- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
- The Water Is Wide
From the albums
- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
- Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits (1967)
- The Concert For Bangladesh (1971)
- Biograph (1985)
- The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue (2002)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (2005)
- The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (2010)
Bob Dylan popular songs
- Murder Most Foul
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- All Along the Watchtower
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Make You Feel My Love
- Hurricane
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Desolation Row
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Girl from the North Country
- Tempest
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Visions of Johanna
- I Contain Multitudes
- To Fall in Love with You
- Shelter from the Storm