How many roads must a man walk down,

            before you call him a man?

            How many seas must a white dove fly,

            before she sleeps in the sand?

            And how many times must a cannon ball fly,

            before they're forever banned?

            The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,

            the answer is blowing in the wind.

 

           Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me

           "How good, how good does it feel to be free?"

           And I answer them most mysteriously

           "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

            Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?

            I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,

            I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,

            I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,

            I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,

            I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

            And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard

            It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

           

           So now as I'm leavin'

           I'm weary as Hell

           The confusion I'm feelin'

           Ain't no tongue can tell

           The words fill my head

           And fall to the floor

           If God's on our side

           He'll stop the next war.

             They say evrything can be replaced,

             Yet ev'ry distance is not near.

             So I remember evry face

             Of ev'ry man who put me here.

             I see my light come shining

             From the west unto the east.

             Any day now, any day now,

             I shall be released.

 

             Who's gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?

             Who's gonna let it roll?

             Who's gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?

             Who's gonna let it down easy to save his soul?

 

               If you're traveling in the north country fair

               Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

               Remember me to one who lives there

               She once was the true love of mine.

 

             Come gather 'round people

             Wherever you roam

             And admit that the waters

             Around you have grown

             And accept it that soon

             You'll be drenched to the bone

             If your time to you

             Is worth savin'

             Or you'll sink like a stone

             For the times they are a-changin'.

                I ain't lookin' to compete with you

                Beat or cheat or mistreat you

                Simplify you, classify you

                Deny, defy or crucify you

                All I really want to do

                Is, baby, be friends with you.

 

           I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babeWhere I'm bound, I can't tell

           But goodbye's too good a word, gal

           So I'll just say fare thee well