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