Blowin' In The Wind

Words & Music by Bob Dylan

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1. How ma - ny roads must a man walk down be - fore
(2.) ma - ny years can a moun - tain ex - ist be - fore



(3.) ma - ny
 
times must a man
 
look

up
 be - fore

           




       






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you call him a man?
it is washed to the sea? Yes, ’n’ how


 
he can see the sky? Yes, ’n’ how

              




     

        
  


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How ma - ny seas must a white dove sail


ma - ny years can some peo - ple ex - ist


ma - ny ears
  must
 
one
   
man have

           
    



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be - fore she sleeps in the sand?
be - fore they’re al - lowed to be free?


   be - fore
 he can
  hear
 
peo - ple cry?

           
           
   


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Yes, ’n’ how ma - ny times
Yes, ’n’ how ma - ny times


    
Yes,

’n’ how
 ma - ny
  deaths

          
             
    


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must the can - non balls fly be - fore


can a man turn his head and pre - tend

  will it take
  till he knows   
that

         
             
     


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they’re for - - ev - er banned?
that he just does - n’t see?

 
too
 ma - ny
  peo -

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ple have died?
  
          
          
   


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Chorus
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The ans - - wer, my friend, is

      
     
           
 


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blow - in’ in the wind, the ans - - wer is

            
              
  


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blow - in’
 
in

the wind.
   
      
         
 


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3. (Harmonica)

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2. Yes, ’n’ how

   3. Yes, ’n’
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