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Blowing In The Wind

Bob Dylan

RockMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

G
C×
Am×
D××
Em

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro: G 
 
 G        C            G                         C          G 
How many roads must a man  walk down before you call him a man? 
 G        C            G                         Am           D 
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand? 
         G        C               G                                C         G 
Yes and how many times must the can___non balls fly before they're fo__rever banned? 
 
     C          D        G              Em 
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind 
     C           D           G 
The answer is blowing in the wind 
 
( C  D  G  Em  C  D  G ) 
 
 G        C            G                         C              G 
How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea? 
         G        C              G                         Am           D 
Yes and how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? 
         G        C               G                                C         G 
Yes and how many times can a man turn his head pretending that he just doesn't see? 
 
     C          D        G              Em 
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind 
     C          D            G 
The answer is blowing in the wind 
 
( C  D  G  Em  C  D  G ) 
 
         G        C            G                         C          G 
Yes and how many times must a man look  up before he can see  the  sky? 
         G         C        G                           Am          D 
Yes and how many ears must one  man have before he can hear people cry? 
         G        C               G                                C           G 
Yes and how many deaths will it  take till he knows that too many people have died? 
 
     C          D        G              Em 
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind 
     C          D            G 
The answer is blowing in the wind 
 
( C  D  G  Em  C  D  G ) 
          
 

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Chord set

G · C · Am · D · Em

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.