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before she sleeps in the sand?
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Yes, and how many times
must the cannonballs fly
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before they're forever banned?
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The answer, my friend,
is blowin' in the wind
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The answer is blowin' in the wind
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I didn't really know if that song
was good or bad or... It felt right.
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But I didn't really know...
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that it had any kind of
anthemic quality or anything.
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How many years must a mountain exist
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before it is washed to the sea?
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I wrote the songs to perform the songs.
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And I needed to sing, like, in that language.
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Which is a language
that I hadn't heard before.
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the
wind
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The answer is blowin' in the wind
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How could he write:
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"How many roads must a man walk down
before you call him a man?"
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This is what my father went through.
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He was the one
who wasn't called a man, you know.
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So, where is he coming from?
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White people don't have hard times.
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This was my thinking back then,
because I was a kid, too.
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What he was writing was inspirational...
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you know, they were inspirational songs.
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And they would inspire.
It's the same as gospel.
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He was writing truth.
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By writing good songs...
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and writing about contemporary ideas
in traditional forms, which I understood.
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And made it like was written today...
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but it sounded like it could have been
written 200 years ago, also.
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It sounded current and old
at the same time.
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So it wasn't just like singing songs
the way Pete Seeger would sing it...