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The song discusses themes of freedom, oppression, and seeking truth and justice.

The song ponders philosophical and political questions about freedom and social change.

The song uses the image of the wind to represent uncertainty and things that are not obvious or easily understood.

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

Words and Music by


BOB DYLAN

Moderately fast
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How man - y roads
how man - y years


how man - y times


               

          
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must a man walk down be - fore
can a moun - tain ex - ist be - fore
must a man look up be - fore


            
   


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you call him a man?
it is washed to the sea?
he can see the sky?

 

             
         


 
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Copyright Renewed 1990 Special Rider Music
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved
Reprinted by Permission of Music Sales Corporation

Sheet Music Plus Order 944283810. 1 copy purchased by [email protected] on Nov 18, 2019.
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How man - y seas must a white
Yes, and how man - y years can some peo -


Yes, and how man - y ears must

        

    
      
         

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dove sail be - fore she
- ple ex - ist be - fore they’re al - lowed


one man have be - fore he can hear

    

       
     
       
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sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how
to be free? Yes, and how
peo - ple cry? Yes, and how

      

    


    
 
     
         
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man - y times must the can - non - balls fly
man - y times can a man turn his head
man - y deaths will it take ’til he knows

               
  
      


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be - fore they are for - ev - er banned?
and pre - tend that he just does - n’t see?
that too man - y peo - ple have died?

                
      
      

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The an - swer, my friend,

                
           
      

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is blow - in’ in the wind. The an -

          
           
        

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- swer is blow - in’ in the wind.

                
     
       

Sheet Music Plus Order 944283810. 1 copy purchased by [email protected] on Nov 18, 2019.

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(2.,3.) Yes, and


   

          
          







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Sheet Music Plus Order 944283810. 1 copy purchased by [email protected] on Nov 18, 2019.

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