"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962, and released as a single and included on his album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" in 1963. It has been described as a protest song, and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind".