Intro
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[Verse 1]
C# G#
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
D#
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
C# D# G#
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
C# D# G#
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
C# D# G#
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
C# D# G#
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
C# D# G#
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
D# G# C#
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G# D# G#
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C# G#
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
D#
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
C# D# G#
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
C# D# G#
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
C# D# G#
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
C# D# G#
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
C# D# G#
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
C# D# G#
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
C# D# G#
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
D# G# C#
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G# D# G#
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C# G#
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
D#
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
C# D# G#
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
C# D# G#
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
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Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
C# D# G#
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
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Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
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Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
C# D# G#
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
D# G# C#
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G# D# G#
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C# G#
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
D#
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
C# D# G#
I met a young child beside a dead pony
C# D# G#
I met a white man who walked a black dog
C# D# G#
I met a young woman whose body was burning
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I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
C# D# G#
I met one man who was wounded in love
C# D# G#
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
D# G# C#
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G# D# G#
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C# G#
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
D#
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
C# D# G#
I'm a goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
C# D# G#
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
C# D# G#
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
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Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
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Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
C# D# G#
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
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Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
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Where black is the colour, where none is the number
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And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
C# D# G#
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
C# D# G#
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
C# D# G#
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
D# G# C#
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G# D# G#
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall