Blowin' in the Wind

The words

A string of unanswerable questions about war, freedom and indifference, with the answers left drifting in the air.

The singer puts a series of plain questions to the listener: how long people must suffer, how long war and injustice will go on, and how long others can look away. Each of the three verses gathers more questions and never answers them directly, and the refrain only says the answer is out there, moving and hard to hold. The tone is calm and searching rather than angry, which helped it become a civil-rights anthem. Dylan sings it simply, with guitar and harmonica.