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Blowin' in the Wind
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1963
Columbia
Paroles
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
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 is washed to the sea?
how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
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?
how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
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.
Interprétation
Composée en 1962 et publiée l'année suivante, Blowin' in the Wind est la chanson qui installe Dylan comme voix d'une génération. La mélodie s'inspire d'un negro spiritual, No More Auction Block, que Dylan reprend en changeant entièrement le texte.
La reprise de Peter, Paul & Mary, en 1963, porte le titre dans les hit-parades et en fait un hymne du mouvement des droits civiques. Dylan lui-même a toujours refusé d'en faire une chanson de parti, insistant sur la question plutôt que sur la réponse.
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