Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Stevie Wonder – piano, harmonica, lead vocals
G.E. Smith – guitar
Steve Cropper – guitar
Booker T. Jones – organ
Donald “Duck” Dunn – bass
Anton Fig – drums
Jim Keltner – drums
D. Keith John – backing vocals
Written by Bob Dylan. Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 16, 1992, for The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration. Released on the Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration live album (Columbia Records, 1993) and the accompanying home video.
Billed on the night as a “surprise guest,” Stevie Wonder delivered one of the show’s emotional peaks with a gospel-inflected reading of “Blowin’ in the Wind” — a song he’d already had his own Top 10 pop/R&B hit with back in 1966.
Stevie Wonder – Blowin’ in the Wind Lyrics
How many roads must a man walk down before they call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?
How many times must those cannonballs be fired before they’re forever banned?
Oh yeah
Let me tell you that the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
Oh, oh yeah
(Well, how many years?)
How many years must a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea? Yeah
How many years can a man exist before he’s allowed to be free? Yeah
Now, how many times can a man turn his head and he pretends that he just doesn’t see?
Whoa, yeah
You know the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
Uh-huh
Uh-huh
And let me tell you it’s blowin’ (Blowin’)
Blowin’ (Blowin’)
And it’s blowin’
Oh, the answer is blowin’ in the wind
And it’s blowin’, yeah yeah yeah
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
To listen to other songs from the Teleskop 11 program and the full program, click here.