A 1963 Bob Dylan protest folk song featuring rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom, popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary.
Composition
Bob Dylan wrote Blowin’ in the Wind in April 1962 and recorded it for his second album in July of that year. The lyric is structured as nine rhetorical questions on social and political themes, set to a simple chord pattern.
Peter, Paul and Mary Cover
Peter, Paul and Mary released their version in June 1963, and it reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Their recording brought the song to a much wider audience and contributed to Dylan’s emergence as a songwriter.
Legacy
Blowin’ in the Wind became a defining anthem of the U.S. civil rights movement. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1994 and added to the U.S. National Recording Registry in 2002.
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