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2	[[caption-width-right:350: How many ears must one person have before he can appreciate this classic? ''The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.'']]
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4	''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' is the second studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1963. It was the first Dylan album where his own material exceeded his covers. It is best remembered for the hits "Blowin' in the Wind", "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", "Girl from the North Country" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". It's equally famous for its iconic cover photo of Dylan and his then-girlfriend walking down a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity street.
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6	"Rocks and Gravel", "Let Me Die In My Footsteps", "Gamblin' Willie's Dead Man's Hand" and "Talkin' John Birch Blues" were originally supposed to appear on the album, but [[ExecutiveMeddling against Dylan's wishes]], they were replaced at the last minute with "Girl from the North Country", "Masters of War", "Talkin' World War III Blues" and "Bob Dylan's Dream".
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8	In 2002, the album was among the first sound recordings to be included in the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry for its "historical, cultural and aesthetical importance".
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11	!! Tracklist:
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13	[[AC: Side One]]
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15	# "Blowin' in the Wind" (2:48)
16	# "Girl from the North Country" (3:22)
17	# "Masters of War" (4:34)
18	# "Down the Highway" (3:27)
19	# "Bob Dylan's Blues" (2:23)
20	# "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (6:55)
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22	[[AC: Side Two]]
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24	# "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (3:40)
25	# "Bob Dylan's Dream" (5:03)
26	# "Oxford Town" (1:50)
27	# "Talkin' World War III Blues" (6:28)
28	# "Corrina, Corrina" (2:44)
29	# "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" (2:01)
30	# "I Shall Be Free" (4:49)
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33	!! This album offers freewheelin' examples of:
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35	* AdamAndEvePlot and AllWomenAreLustful: "Talkin' World War III Blues"
36	--> ''Well, I spied me a girl and before she could leave''
37	--> ''"Let's go and play Adam and Eve"''
38	--> ''I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin' ''
39	--> ''When she said, "Hey man, you crazy or sumpin' ''
40	--> ''You see what happened last time they started".''
41	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''C'''orrina, '''C'''orrina".
42	* {{Anaphora}}: "Blowin' In The Wind" has three different short anaphoras:
43	-->'''How many''' roads must a man walk down\
44	Before you call him a man?\
45	'''How many''' seas must the white dove sail\
46	Before she sleeps in the sand?\
47	(...)\
48	'''The answer''', my friend, is blowin' in the wind\
49	'''The answer''' is blowin' in the wind\
50	(...)\
51	'''Yes, and how many years''' can a mountain exist\
52	'Fore it is washed to the sea?\
53	'''Yes, and how many years''' can some people exist\
54	Before they're allowed to be free?\
55	'''Yes, and how many''' times can a man turn his head\
56	And pretend that he just doesn't see?
57	* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: "Masters of War".
58	--> ''I hope that you die and your death will come soon\
59	I will follow your casket on that pale afternoon\
60	And I'll watch as your lowered down to your death bed\
61	And I'll stand o'er your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.''
62	* BlackComedy: "Talkin' World War III Blues" starts out with Dylan surviving a nuclear assault on New York, and then gets bleaker and bleaker without ever losing its sense of humor.
63	* BreakupSong:
64	** "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance"
65	--> ''Honey, just allow me one more chance to get along with you''
66	--> ''Honey, just allow me one more chance, I'll do anything with you''
67	--> ''Well, lookin' for a woman that ain't got no man''
68	--> ''Is just lookin' for a needle that is lost in the sand''
69	** "Corrina, Corrina"
70	--> ''Corrina, Corrina''
71	--> ''Gal, where you been so long?''
72	--> ''Corrina, Corrina''
73	--> ''Gal, where you been so long?''
74	--> ''I been worrying about you, baby''
75	--> ''Baby, please come home''
76	** "Down the Highway"
77	--> ''Well, the ocean took my baby''
78	--> ''My baby stole my heart from me''
79	--> ''Yes, the ocean took my baby''
80	--> ''My baby took my heart from me''
81	--> ''She packed it all up in a suitcase''
82	--> ''Lord, she took it away to Italy, Italy''
83	** "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
84	--> ''I ain't a-saying you treated me unkind''
85	--> ''You could have done better but I don't mind''
86	--> ''You just kinda wasted my precious time''
87	--> ''But don't think twice, it's all right.''
88	* [[BreatherEpisode Breather Song]]: "Bob Dylan's Blues" and "I Shall Be Free", which are far more light than the heavier topics on the album.
89	* ButNowIMustGo: The central message of "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright".
90	* ContinuityNod: Dylan would later sing a different version of "Girl from the North Country" on his album ''Music/NashvilleSkyline'' from 1969, in duet with Music/JohnnyCash.
91	* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer:
92	--> ''The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.''
93	* TheDissTrack: "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is a cutting indictment of a former lover.
94	-->Goodbye's too good a word, babe,
95	-->So I'll just say fare thee well.
96	-->I ain't saying you treated me unkind,
97	-->You could have done better but I don't mind,
98	-->You just kinda wasted all of my precious time,
99	-->But don't think twice, it's all right.
100	* EpicRocking: "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Talkin' World War II Blues" are 7 and 6 and a half minutes, respectively.
101	* FaceOnTheCover: A photo of Dylan and then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking down Jones Street in Manhattan's West Village.
102	* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: "Blown' in the Wind"
103	--> ''How many years can some people exist before they are allowed to be free?''
104	* FinalSpeech: "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" was written in the midst of the [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]].
105	--> ''Every line in it is actually the start of a whole new song. But when I wrote it, I thought I wouldn't have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one.''
106	* IJustWantToBeFree: "Blowin' in the Wind"
107	--> ''Yes, how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free?''
108	* JustIgnoreIt:
109	** "Blowin' in the Wind" asks several rhetorical questions, to which "the answer is blowin' in the wind".
110	--> ''Yes, how many times can a man turn his head''
111	--> ''Pretending he just doesn't see?''
112	--> ''(...) Yes, how many ears must one man have''
113	--> ''Before he can hear people cry?''
114	--> ''Yes, how many death will it take till he knows''
115	--> ''That too many people have died?''
116	** "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall"
117	--> ''I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin' ''
118	* NonAppearingTitle: The album title.
119	* NostalgiaFilter: "Bob Dylan's Dream", where he dreams from his friends of the past.
120	--> ''How many a year has passed and gone''
121	--> ''Many a gamble has been lost and won''
122	--> ''And many a road taken by many a first friend''
123	--> ''And each one I've never seen again.''
124	--> ''I wish, I wish, I wish in vain''
125	--> ''That we could sit simply in that room again''
126	--> ''Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat''
127	--> ''I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.''
128	* OneWomanSong: "Girl from the North Country", "Corrina, Corrina".
129	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance", where Dylan wants his lover to give him one more chance.
130	* ProductionForeshadowing: Electric guitar and drums on "Corrina, Corrina", several years before he officially "went electric."
131	* ProtestSong: "Blowin' In The Wind", "Oxford Town", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Masters Of War".
132	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Masters Of War" is one long litany, aimed at warmongers.
133	--> ''You fasten all the triggers''
134	--> ''For the others to fire''
135	--> ''Then you set back and watch''
136	--> ''When the death count gets higher''
137	--> ''You hide in your mansion''
138	--> ''As young people's blood''
139	--> ''Flows out of their bodies''
140	--> ''And is buried in the mud.''
141	* SelfTitledAlbum: Sort of: ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan''
142	* ShoutOut:
143	** "Girl from the North Country" borrows two lines from the traditional song "Scarborough Fair" (best known to modern audiences from Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's arrangement a few years later, though they were hardly the first ones to perform it)
144	--> ''Remember me to one who lives there''
145	--> ''For she once was a true love of mine''
146	** "Bob Dylan's Blues"
147	--> ''Well, the Radio/TheLoneRanger and Tonto''
148	--> ''They are ridin' down the line''
149	--> ''Fixin' everybody's troubles, everybody except mine''
150	--> ''Somebody must have told 'em that I was doin' fine''
151	** "I Shall Be Free" name-drops UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy (whom Dylan calls up), Creator/BrigitteBardot, Creator/AnitaEkberg, Creator/SophiaLoren, baseball player Willy Mays, Martin Luther King and Nigerian musician Music/BabatundeOlatunji, best known for his best-selling album ''Music/DrumsOfPassion'' from 1960. Near the end Dylan also "makes love to Creator/ElizabethTaylor" and "catches hell from Creator/RichardBurton".
152	--> ''Oh, I set me down on a television floor,''
153	--> ''I flipped the channel to number four.''
154	--> ''Out of the shower comes a football man''
155	--> '' With a bottle of oil in his hand.''
156	--> ''Greasy kid stuff.''
157	--> ''What I want to know, Mr Football Man, is''
158	--> ''What do you do about Willy Mays,''
159	--> ''Martin Luther King,''
160	--> ''Olatunji?''
161	** On the wall of the bathroom graffiti cover of Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}' ''Music/BeggarsBanquet'' from 1968 we can read the text: "Bob Dylan's Dream", a reference to the song of the same name from this album.
162	** "I Shall Be Free, No. 10" is referenced during Music/BeastieBoys' song "Car Thief" from ''Music/PaulsBoutique'' from 1989
163	--> ''I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it''
164	** ''Film/VanillaSky'': One scene in this film duplicates the album cover. [[spoiler: Which turns out to be the clue to David's character that he has dreamt his memories about Sofia, because his memory of them two walking on Times Square is just a memory of the image on "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", which he confused with reality.]]
165	* SingerNameDrop: "Bob Dylan's Dream", "Bob Dylan's Blues" and the following line from "I Shall Be Free"
166	--> ''It's President Kennedy callin' me up''
167	--> ''He said; "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?''
168	* SomethingBlues: "Bob Dylan's Blues".
169	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: "I Shall Be Free"
170	--> ''Well, my telephone rang it would not stop \
171	It's President [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Kennedy]] callin' me up \
172	He said, "My friend Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?" \
173	I said, "My friend John, [[MsFanService Brigitte Bardot! Anita Ekberg! Sophia Loren!]]'' \
174	...Country'll grow!"
175	* SpokenWord: The intro to "Bob Dylan's Blues".
176	* AStormIsComing: "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall".
177	--> ''I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin' ''
178	* ThisIsUnforgivable: "Masters of War".
179	-->''You might say I’m unlearned''
180	-->''But there’s one thing I know''
181	-->''Though I’m younger than you''
182	-->''Even Jesus would never''
183	-->''Forgive what you do''
184	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: All the songs are acoustic, but the lyrics are powerful.
185	* TimeMarchesOn: During "I Shall Be Free" Dylan phones up president UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
186	* ToAbsentFriends: "Bob Dylan's Dream", where Dylan dreams of friends he lost contact with.
187	* TrainSong: "Bob Dylan's Dream"
188	--> ''While riding on a train goin' west''
189	--> ''I fell asleep for take me a rest''
190	* UncommonTime: "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" jumps around ''a lot'', but spends more time in 7/4 (or 21/8) than anything else. (There are also bars of 5/4 and 9/4 in the transitions to and from some of the choruses, plus a few measures of 4/4 in each chorus proper.) Many transcriptions just place the whole thing in ridiculously fast 3/4 (with patterns of mostly seven measures) just to avoid having to notate all the changes, but the song doesn't really play like 3/4 - the chord changes are too important to the impact of the song and don't match up with such a fast tempo.
191	* WalkingTheEarth: "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", "Down The Highway" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall".
192	* WarIsHell:
193	** "Masters of War".
194	--> ''You that never done nothin' ''
195	--> ''But build to destroy''
196	--> ''You play with my world''
197	--> ''Like it's your little toy''
198	--> ''You put a gun in my hand''
199	--> ''And you hide from my eyes''
200	--> ''And you turn and run farther''
201	--> ''When the fast bullets fly. ''
202	** "Blowin' in the Wind"
203	--> ''How many times must a cannonball fly before there forever banned?''
204	* WinYourFreedom: "I Shall Be Free".
205	* WorldWarThree:
206	** "Talkin' World War III Blues".
207	--> ''Some time ago a crazy dream came to me''
208	--> ''I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three''
209	--> ''I went to the doctor the very next day''
210	--> ''To see what kinda words he could say''
211	--> ''He said it was a bad dream''
212	--> ''I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though''
213	--> ''They're dreams and they're only in your head.''
214	--> ''I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain".''
215	--> ''He said, "Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane".''
216	** "Masters of War"
217	--> ''A world war can be won, you want me to believe''
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