Dylan sang it at the March on Washington in 1963.
The words
A prophecy of a day of reckoning when the oppressed rise and their enemies are swept aside.
The song imagines the day a great ship arrives and the world turns in favor of the downtrodden. Nature itself joins in, the seas and the sun greeting the change, and then the enemies of the righteous wake in disbelief and are swept away, like the army of Pharaoh in the Bible. The tone is joyful and triumphant rather than bitter. It moves with a bright, marching rhythm on guitar and harmonica, part sermon and part celebration.
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The words
A prophecy of a day of reckoning when the oppressed rise and their enemies are swept aside.
The song imagines the day a great ship arrives and the world turns in favor of the downtrodden. Nature itself joins in, the seas and the sun greeting the change, and then the enemies of the righteous wake in disbelief and are swept away, like the army of Pharaoh in the Bible. The tone is joyful and triumphant rather than bitter. It moves with a bright, marching rhythm on guitar and harmonica, part sermon and part celebration.
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