How long will HATE and WAR divide us? the answer is BLOWIN' IN THE WIND w/ GRAPHICS

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While generally attributed to Bob Dylan, there is some evidence that he was not the original author of Blowin' In The Wind. There is also a nasty rumor going around the right side of the web that he had little interest in the anti-war movement but he adamantly claims that he wrote this song, which IS anti-war. While he did not perform at Woodstock Bob Dylan did sing at the Isle of Wight Festival in England several weeks later. There is one thing that is certain: He once had a very talented girlfriend, who gives an excellent rendition of the song and she has spent her life as one of the greatest social reformers of our time. She IS certainly anti-war!



Born January 9, 1941, American folk icon, Joan Chandos Baez is known for her highly individual vocal style. An outstanding soprano, she has a three-octave vocal range and a distinctive throat vibrato.

Her father, Albert Baez, was a renowned physicist (co-inventor of the x-ray microscope and author of one of the most widely used physics textbooks in the U.S.) He refused lucrative defense industry jobs during the Cold War, including the Manhattan Project which built the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos. Dr. Baez, like most fathers, had a profound impact on Joan.

For reason of his work, the Baez family lived not only in the United States but also in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Iraq. At only ten years old, Joan began speaking out about the poverty and suffering of the people of Baghdad. Later, Joan wrote that she felt a certain affinity with beggars in Baghdad and felt "their suffering was a part of her."

In 1956, a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. on nonviolence and civil rights reportedly brought tears to her eyes. Several years later, the two became close friends, as she took an active role in his movement for racial equality, helping him bring about much-needed reform. That very year, Joan bought her first guitar and began entertaining fellow students at school.

In 1980, Joan was awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees by both Antioch and Rutgers universities for the "universality of her music." Baez also played a significant role in the Live Aid concert for famine relief, along with many other causes, including A Conspiracy of Hope for Amnesty International. In 1983, she appeared on the Grammy Awards, performing "Blowing In The Wind," a song she first performed some twenty years earlier.


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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 blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.

How many years
can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea?

How many years must some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free?

and How many times
can a man turn his head,

and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer:

The answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.

How many times can a man look up

Before he sees the sky?

How many ears must one person have

Before he can hear people cry?

and How many deaths, will it take, till he knows

That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.

oh, the answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.