Chords for Arlo Guthrie Blowing In the Wind Oct 2 2017 Chicago nunupics

_ I know a lot [F#] of people were iffy about it.
[D#] I thought it was great and I thought the [G] best part of it was that they couldn't [N] find him. _ _
[Em] I mean, everybody that had a ticket to the gig he was doing knew [F] where to go.
But the smartest guys in the world couldn't find him. _
Just goes to show you that sometimes being a regular person [E] is pretty smart in and of itself.
_ At least that was my conclusion.
I [D] remember there was a time when Bob had stopped playing some of these songs that I had loved so [F#] much.
And [E] I was sort of sympathetic because, you know, if you keep writing songs year after year, [G] decade after decade,
[N] I mean, there's just no way to squeeze them in one night.
No matter how fast you say them, you still can't fit them into a night.
And so you naturally have to stop doing some in order to do others.
And I [F#] had that problem, not so much with the number of songs, but the [E] length of them.
_ So [A] I was sympathetic.
[C] And I remember back in [G] those days I had gone to [A#] do a gig out in Tucson, [D#m] Arizona.
[G] And in those days, they didn't have the [N] tunnels that suck you up from the planes to the terminals like they do these days.
You got out of the plane, out on the runway, out on the tarmac.
And I remember I was halfway down the stairs, and a local Tucson newspaper reporter came running over to me, put a microphone in my face.
He said, Art Lowe Guthrie, we hear you're playing Tucson [E] tonight.
I said, yes, I am.
He said, do you [A] realize that Bob Dylan is playing in town the same night as you?
[N] I said, no, but that's great.
He said, well, why [D#] would anybody come hear you?
I [N] _ _
thought about it.
I said, well, if people really want to go hear some good old Bob Dylan songs, they probably have to come hear me. _ _ _ _
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They printed it.
_ I didn't think they were going to print it.
I was just being a smartass out [N] on the tarmac.
I got to the gig that night.
The place was packed.
I'm sitting in the dressing room before the show with my Bob Dylan songbook.
_ I didn't know that many Bob Dylan songs.
And his are weird, you know.
_ [D] But I learned a bunch of them that [G] night. _
This is one of them.
_ Some of [F#] these songs come in handy.
People [G] ask me from time to time, [E] you got to write [F#] a song about this.
You got to write [F] a song about that.
The way the world is going, there's [D] so much going on.
Why don't you write something?
And I say, you know, it's the same old shit.
We already got songs about this stuff.
_ You just got to remember them, that's all. _
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_ The [G] answer, [A] my friend, [D] is blowing [Bm] in the wind.
[G] The answer [A] is blowing [D] in the wind.
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How [G] many years [D] can a mountain exist _ before it gets washed to the sea?
_ You see, how [G] many years [D] can the people exist before [B] we're allowed to [A] be free?
_ _ [D] You see, how [G] many times [D] can a man turn his head and pretend [G] that he just [D] doesn't see?
_ [E] The answer, [A] my friend, [D] is blowing [Bm] in the wind.
[G] The answer [A] is blowing in [D] the wind.
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_ _ _ How many [G] times [D] must a man look up before he [G] can see the [D] sky?
_ _ And how [G] many years [D] must one man have before he [Em] can hear people [A]
cry?
_ [D] Yes, and how [G] many deaths will [D] it take until he knows that too [G] many people [D] have died?
_ [E] The answer, [A] my friend, [D] is blowing in the wind.
[G] The answer [A] is blowing [D] in the wind.
_ [Em] Yes, the answer, [A] my friend, [D] is blowing [Bm] in the wind.
[G] The answer [A] is blowing [D] in the wind. _ _ _ _ _ _ _