Joan Baez – Blowin In The Wind (Guitar Acoustic)

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Live in Norway August 27 1978 Define: Gadd9 300003 Csus2 x3001x [Intro] G [Verse 1]
G   Gadd9 G C     Csus2 C G   D     Em
How man - y roads must  a man walk down,

G Gadd9 G   C    Csus2 C G   D
before  you call him   a man?

G   Gadd9 G C    Csus2 C G     D     Em
How man - y seas must  a white dove sail,

G          C             D7
before she sleeps in the sand?

G   Gadd9 G C     Csus2 C   G     D     Em
How man - y times must  the cannonballs fly,

G Gadd9 G       C       D7
before  they're forever banned? (the answer)
[Chorus]
    C         D7        G       D      Em
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

    C         D7             G
The answer is blowing in the wind
[Verse 2]
G   Gadd9 G C     Csus2 C G   D     Em
How man - y years can   a mountain exist,

G Gadd9 G    C      Csus2 C   G   D
before  it's washed to    the sea?

G   Gadd9 G C     Csus2 C    G  D   Em
How man - y years can   some people exist,

G              C             D7
before they're allowed to be free?

    G   Gadd9 G C     Csus2 C G   D        Em
And how man - y times can   a man turn his head

    G  Gadd9 G       C            D7
And pretend  that he just doesn't see?
[Chorus]
    C         D7        G       D      Em
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

    C         D7             G    G
The answer is blowing in the wind
[Verse 3]
G   Gadd9 G C     Csus2 C G   D     Em
How man - y times can   a man look up

G Gadd9 G  C  Csus2 C   G   D
Before  he sees     the sky?

G   Gadd9 G C    Csus2 C  G   D     Em
How man - y ears must     one woman have

G              C           D7
Before she can hear people cry?

    G   Gadd9 G C      Csus2 C  G     D      Em
And how man - y deaths will  it take 'til we know

     G   Gadd9 G C           D7
That too man - y people have died?
[Outro]
    C         D7        G       D      Em
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

    C         D7             Em
The answer is blowing in the wind

    C         D7        G       D      Em
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

    C         D7             C    G    D7sus4 G
The answer is blowing in the wind