How long will HATE and WAR divide us? the answer is BLOWIN' IN THE WIND w/ GRAPHICS

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Welcome to woodstock online


While generally attributed to Bob Dylan, there is some evidence that he was not the original author of Blowin' In The Wind. There is also a nasty rumor going around the right side of the web that he had little interest in the anti-war movement but he adamantly claims that he wrote this song, which IS anti-war. While he did not perform at Woodstock Bob Dylan did sing at the Isle of Wight Festival in England several weeks later. There is one thing that is certain: He once had a very talented girlfriend, who gives an excellent rendition of the song and she has spent her life as one of the greatest social reformers of our time. She IS certainly anti-war!



Born January 9, 1941, American folk icon, Joan Chandos Baez is known for her highly individual vocal style. An outstanding soprano, she has a three-octave vocal range and a distinctive throat vibrato.

Her father, Albert Baez, was a renowned physicist (co-inventor of the x-ray microscope and author of one of the most widely used physics textbooks in the U.S.) He refused lucrative defense industry jobs during the Cold War, including the Manhattan Project which built the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos. Dr. Baez, like most fathers, had a profound impact on Joan.

For reason of his work, the Baez family lived not only in the United States but also in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Iraq. At only ten years old, Joan began speaking out about the poverty and suffering of the people of Baghdad. Later, Joan wrote that she felt a certain affinity with beggars in Baghdad and felt "their suffering was a part of her."

In 1956, a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. on nonviolence and civil rights reportedly brought tears to her eyes. Several years later, the two became close friends, as she took an active role in his movement for racial equality, helping him bring about much-needed reform. That very year, Joan bought her first guitar and began entertaining fellow students at school.

In 1980, Joan was awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees by both Antioch and Rutgers universities for the "universality of her music." Baez also played a significant role in the Live Aid concert for famine relief, along with many other causes, including A Conspiracy of Hope for Amnesty International. In 1983, she appeared on the Grammy Awards, performing "Blowing In The Wind," a song she first performed some twenty years earlier.


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How many roads must a man walk down

Before you call him a man?

How many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand?

How many times
must the cannon balls fly

Before they're forever banned?

The answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.

How many years
can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea?

How many years must some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free?

and How many times
can a man turn his head,

and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer:

The answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.

How many times can a man look up

Before he sees the sky?

How many ears must one person have

Before he can hear people cry?

and How many deaths, will it take, till he knows

That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.

oh, the answer, my friend,
is blowing in the wind,

The answer is blowing in the wind.

[acmejack]

1. Another work of genius.

Awesome, brother, awesome. Images are indeed worth a thousand words...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. did you HEAR that music? If you didn't go back and LISTEN to the lady...

It gives me chills!

[liberaldemocrat7]

31. Kick. Very nice post.

Very nice post.

Our government should not have invaded a country that we had under containment and which did not attack us.

George W Bush attacked Iraq for political popularity and to destroy the New Deal and the Great Society.

[indepat]

37. Truly an incredible voice, talent and human being

[Lasher]

3. Peace, Jefferson. It's still a groovy idea.

I still know all the words to that song. Think I'll play it for myself on the guitar today. :hippie:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. thanks for the votes folks... have a good morning n/t

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. so you let this get burried? I won't do these anymore, if no one is interested...

sorry i bothered you folks. i guess causes and idealism are silly

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. wow a new feature at du... I'll go back and see how interested DU was in other music posts

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. IT LOOKS LIKE I WAS WRONG. VERY FEW OPs are getting as many votes w/ so few views...

i'll try to hang in there for you guys, DU

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. AND THIS OP GOT ALL THOSE VOTES INSTANTLY THIS MORNING... KICK

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. i never used the word "groovy" by the time I came of age, many...

considered it tennie-bopper... modern media still thinks hippies said that word and maybe they DID before my time in '69. i wasn't in southern Cal. As for ALL Love and Peace at the festival read this for Wikipedia:

At Woodstock in 1969, Hoffman interrupted The Who's performance to attempt a protest speech against the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. He grabbed a microphone and yelled, "I think this is a pile of shit! While John Sinclair rots in prison. . ." The Who's guitarist, Pete Townshend, unhappy with the interruption, cut Hoffman off mid-sentence, snarling, "Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!" He then struck Hoffman with his guitar, sending him tumbling offstage. Townshend later said he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's imprisonment, though he made the point that he would have knocked him offstage regardless of his message. The audio of this event can be heard on the The Who's box set,Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Disc 2, Track 20, "Abbie Hoffman Incident").

According to Hoffman, in his autobiography, the incident played out like this, "If you ever heard about me in connection with the festival it was not for playing Florence Nightingale to the flower children. What you heard was the following: 'Oh, him, yeah, didn't he grab the microphone, try to make a speech when Peter Townshend cracked him over the head with his guitar?' I've seen countless references to the incident, even a mammoth mural of the scene. What I've failed to find was a single photo of the incident. Why? Because it didn't really happen.

"I grabbed the microphone all right and made a little speech about John Sinclair, who had just been sentenced to ten years in the Michigan State Penitentiary for giving two joints of grass to two undercover cops, and how we should take the strength we had at Woodstock home to free our brothers and sisters in jail. Something like that. Townshend, who had been tuning up, turned around and bumped into me. A nonincident really. Hundreds of photos and miles of film exist depicting the events on that stage, but none of this much-talked about scene."

the event was VERY political and contraversial.

[Lasher]

27. I used it until I got drafted on May 5, 1969

Then I adopted a whole new set of words.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

32. yep, I can relate back in boot camp in '72, i learned some new words too...

it IS nice too see there are still a few old hippies or ex-hippies around who are older than me and GOD! lol did you attend any true Festivals?

[Lasher]

44. No, I never attended any festivals like Woodstock.

We didn't have much money and it was all my parents could do to put my brother and me through college. Travel like that was not in the budget. I played in a band, though. That was fun.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Another great job, JG.

K&R

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. YOU READERS CAN BELIEVE SOME PEOPLE WANT TO HIDE MY music OPs

will you readers allow it or will you give it a few kicks?

[recoveringrepublican]

12. I'll Kick again. I love your posts. Kickity Kick Kick. off to grab kleenex. nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. thanks, i need some tissue too but I use off-brands these days...

I need it because something must have gotten into my eyes and made them water, when i saw your loyalty. wasn't Joan's rendition beautiful?

[hfojvt]

11. Can you believe

they taught us that song in school? :headbang:`

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. I bet they're not teaching it today...

In fact, I believe they're no longer teaching LOVE or PEACE in many Churches in America.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

40. thanks for your comments and votes

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. !!!

:yourock:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. you rock too blue state, thanks for the 5th vote... the trolls are now sunk!

LOL!!!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

17. kick to bug the trolls trying to hide this. LOL!!!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

18. TODAY, I'M MORE PISSED THAN POLITE: is it in bad form to keep kicking?

i went back 3 pages and found several OPs that had been rapidly burried before people could read them. Hey, maybe it was accidental! So, I accidently kicked them right back up. lol

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. another excellent piece and another box of tissues ...

squashes(hugs)

[Jeffersons Ghost]

20. keep those cards and letters coming...

and especially :kick: s This OP moves REALLY fast down the board, here at DU for some reason

[Jeffersons Ghost]

35. oh well

[thingfisher]

21. Still blowin'

after all these years.

I recall the intense idealism and sense of empowerment (illusory though it may have been) of the Woodstock Nation and I sigh heavily.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

23. guess what? some of us NEVER lost that "idealism" and never gave up...

BTW, I'll see most of you guys, including volunteer trolls, at Guantanamo, after the elections get stolen... it will be nice to meet some of you in person. FUCK THE CONTROL FREAKS!

[Rainscents]

22. This song is one of my old time favorite!!!

Thanks for posting this!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

25. i like the Dylan version too... some criticized his voice but i found it unique

[Jeffersons Ghost]

26. oh well, talking to myself again today, "hi self" oh, "hi"...

"why do you think there is so much on an insignificant John Kerry issue being posted here today." self says, "gee, I don't know. I wonder why the board moves so fast when our OP hits the top"...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

29. hello self... oh, "hi again"... "did you notice how fast the internet is changing?"

"yeah, i did. last night was different"... "yes, i thought so too but what makes you say that?" "well with this high-speed cable hook-up, one wouldn't think so many servers would 'time out.' unlike ALL those other nights i used to hunt imagery." are you basing this on limited experience?" "no, you ought to know we've been doing OPs like this for months." Yeah, you're right we've been to THOUSANDS of sites hunting antiwar graphics. last night was VERY different." Hey, did you hear about that net neutrality thing?"...

[Richard Steele]

28. Powerful stuff.

The pics of B*sh at the "pretend he just doesn't see" point
seemed particularly appropriate.
Kicked and recommended.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

30. did you read my last entry where i was talking to myself?

what was REALLY odd is when my machine kept saying "can't find server" here at DU and in my Photobucket, when I was doing spell check and working out the finer graphic points on the OP. It suddenly stopped, once I began copying my work before previewing the piece. The WEB is changing, literally over-night. I read they snuck some law through, also in the dead of night, dealing with this recently. Do you know anything about it?

[Richard Steele]

33. No, I'm not aware of that...

...but I'm hardly surprised.
Things have been 'disappearing' from the web for years.

I've seen it myself.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

34. I am VERY aware of that but as you know, i've been doing the same thing online...

several nights in a row, lately. last night was VERY different! did you ever get to a rock festival dick?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

36. "how many times will this thread slip down before i let the thread fly?"

"and how many times can my readers miss it, before it fades in cyber sky?"

THE ANSWER MY FRIEND, IS I'LL BE HERE TILL THE END

and i swear i will never let it die!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

38. How many times will the right-wing win before they say good-bye?

and how many ways can they cover their sin as millions of children cry?
How many times will they let leaders commint crime before they see the light?
and when will they see their cause ain't worth a dime and just give up this stupid fight?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

39. "How many times can i keep making rhymes before my efforts will end?"

The answer my friend is my will you'll never bend, so trolls can blow it out their end. lol

here's a riddle: how many trolls does it take to kill a thread?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

41. goodniters kick...for the late trick or treaters

[Jeffersons Ghost]

42. no matter what time of the day or night this OP hits the board it gets pushed down fast

but it still got 14 votes so far. not too shabby for so few to have viewed it. thanks for the vote Ms. Daughter. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[ConsAreLiars]

43. K&R, Thank you

for putting the truth out.