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