Z+Blowin'+in+the+Wind

= = **Blowin' in the Wind**

How many roads most a man walk down
Before you call him a man ? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand ? Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned ? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea ? Yes, how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free ? Yes, how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn't see ? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky ? Yes, how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry ? Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died ? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind. Back to "Songs of the Vietnam Era" //Blowin’ in the Wind//, by Bob Dylan is almost overpoweringly strong. Read the lyrics for a moment, and its message will be unavoidable. Dylan wastes no time in hiding his ideas, and for this reason, this song was the perfect pick. It's as if Bob Dylan is screaming for the deaths to stop. He wants us out of Vietnam, and he's looking for others to feel the same way. I feel that the lyrics are perfectly representative of America in the late 1960's. Vietnam was the first war that we had fought in that people could truly experience. In other words, it was the first war since the creation of television. Bob Dylan, and others were horrified as they watched people die, and in my opinion, this is the reason for the heavy petitioning against the war. “How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?” Dylan isn’t just opposing the war himself, he’s looking to convince others to take action. Death is a larger ideal than most tend to think. People were being killed for their freedom in Vietnam, and that wasn’t okay with him. “How many years must a man exist before he’s allowed to be free?” asks Dylan. We had occupied Vietnam for too long, and killed too many innocent people. How long would it be until we would allow the Vietnamese to be free? In his characteristically calm voice, Dylan is screaming for us to just stop and look at what we’ve done. He wants the soldiers see how many they’ve killed, and for America to recognize the stupidity of war. It’s more than just words, Dylan wants actions. I believe that the lyrics of this song are aimed, most of all, at the soldiers occupying Vietnam. In the first line of this song, it is asked “How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?” With this, Bob Dylan is shaking his head it at the bizarre theory that a man who turns down a chance to fight, is a coward. “Look at what you’re doing,” he seems to scream, “you’re tearing our world apart!” This is not to say that soldiers, or even Americans are the only target of this song. It’s an anti-war call to everyone around the world. Bob Dylan wants people to take a single moment to see what war has done to us as people. I believe that, in listening to this, all people would have shared a collective reaction, they just wanted it all to stop. The soldiers had grown tired of fighting, and their parents had grown tired of worrying, everything needed to come to an end, and this song is perfectly representative of that.