First released in 1963 on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,
this is one of Dylan’s best-known songs. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine
placed the song at Number 14 in its list of The Greatest Songs of all
time. It is was a very popular anti-war song in the 1960’s, particularly
during the Vietnam War, and Bob Dylan performed it for Pope John Paul
II in 1997. Bob Dylan was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.