A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL

Bob Dylan

Intro

	A	D/A	A
Oh,	where have you been, my	blue-eyed	son?

	A	E
Oh,	where have you been, my darling young	one?

	D/A	E/A	A
I’ve	stumbled on the side of	twelve misty	mountains

	D/A	E/A	A
I’ve	walked and I’ve crawled on	six crooked	highways

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I’ve	stepped in the middle of	seven sad	forests

	D/A	E/A	A
I’ve	been out in front of a	dozen dead	oceans

	D/A	E/A	A
I’ve been	ten thousand miles in the	mouth of a	graveyard

	A	E	A	D
And it’s a	hard, and it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, and it’s a	hard

	A	E	A
It’s a	hard rai-	--n’s a-gonna f	all

Interlude

	A	D	A
Oh,	what did you see, my	blue-eyed	son?

	A	E
And	what did you see, my darling young	one?

	D/A	E/A	A
I saw a	newborn baby with wild	wolves all a	round it

	D/A	E/A	A
I saw a	highway of diamonds with	nobody	on it

	D/A	E/A	A
I	saw a black branch with	blood that kept	drippin’

	D/A	E/A	A
I saw a	room full of men with their	hammers a-	bleedin’

	D/A	E/A	A
I	saw a white ladder all	covered with	water

	D/A	E/A	A
I saw	ten thousand talkers whose	tongues were all	broken

	D/A	E/A	A
I saw	guns and sharp swords in the	hands of young	children

	A	E	A	D
And it’s a	hard, and it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, and it’s a	hard

	A	E	A
And it’s a	hard rai-	--n’s a-gonna	fall

Interlude

	A	D	A
And	what did you hear, my	blue-eyed	son?

	A	E
And	what did you hear, my darling young	one?

	D/A	E/A	A
I heard the	sound of a thunder that	roared out a	warnin’

	D/A	E/A	A
I heard the	roar of a wave that could	drown the whole	world

	D/A	E/A	A
I heard	one hundred drummers whose	hands were a-	blazin’

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I heard	ten thousand whisperin’ and	nobody	listenin’

	D/A	E/A	A
I heard	one person starve, I heard	many people	laughin’

	D/A	E/A	A
I heard the	song of a poet who	died in the	gutter

	D/A	E/A	A
I heard the	sound of a clown who	cried in the	alley

	A	E	A	D
And it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard

	A	E	A
It’s a	hard rai-	--n’s a-gonna	fall

Interlude

	A	D	A
Oh,	what did you meet, my	blue-eyed	son?

	A	E
	Who did you meet, my darling young	one?

	D/A	E/A	A
I	met a young child be	side a dead	pony

	D/A	E/A	A
I	met a white man who	walked a black	dog

	D/A	E/A	A
I	met a young woman whose	body was	burning

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I	met a young girl, she	gave me a	rainbow

	D/A	E/A	A
I	met one man who was	wounded in	love

	D/A	E/A	A
I	met another man who was	wounded in	hatred

	A	E	A	D
And it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard

	A	E	A
It’s a	hard rai-	--n’s a-gonna	fall

Interlude

	A	D	A
And,	what’ll you do now, my	blue-eyed	son?

	A	E
And,	what’ll you do now, my darling young	one?

	D/A	E/A	A
I’m a-	goin’ back out ’fore the	rain starts a-	fallin’

	D/A	E/A	A
I’ll	walk to the depths of the	deepest dark	forest

	D/A	E/A	A
Where the	people are many and their	hands are all	empty

	D/A	E/A	A
Where the	pellets of poison are	flooding their	waters

	D/A	E/A	A
Where the	home in the valley meets the	damp dirty	prison

	D/A	E/A	A
And the	executioner’s face is	always well h	idden

	D/A	E/A	A
Where	hunger is ugly, where the	souls are for	gotten

	D/A	E/A	A
Where	black is the color, where	none is the	number

	D/A	E/A	A
And I’ll	tell it and speak it and	think it and	breathe it

	D/A	E/A	A
And	reflect from the mountain so	all souls can	see it

	D/A	E/A	A
Then I’ll	stand on the ocean un	til I start	sinkin’

	D/A	E/A	A
But I’ll	know my song well be	fore I start	singin’

	A	E	A	D
And it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, it’s a	hard, and it’s a	hard

	A	E	A
It’s a hard	rai---n’	s a-gonna	fall

Interlude