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[Verse 1]
D
Where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
                                       A
Where have you been, my darling young one?
     G                       D
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
     G                          D
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
G                        D
stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
G                      D
been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
          G                         D
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

[Chorus]
       D                A
It’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
           D                G
and it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
              D    A               G   G/F# G/E   D
And it’s a  hard  rain’s a-gonna fall

[Verse 2]
    D
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
                                   A
What did you see, my darling young one?
        G                 D
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves around it
      G                        D
Saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
G                       D
Saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
      G                           D
Saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
G                  D
A white ladder all covered with water
      G                          D
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
      G                            D
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

{Chorus]
           D                A                D               G
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, and it's a hard, hard hard hard
           D    A              G     G/F# G/E   D
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

[Verse 3]
    D
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
                                        A
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
            G                        D
I heard the sound of a thunder, that roared out a warnin’
          G                         D
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
           G                          D
Heard one, one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
      G                           D
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listenin
      G                  D
Heard one person starve, many people laughin’
          G                  D
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
          G                    D
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

[Chorus]
           D                A
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
           D           G
And it’s a hard, hard, hard, hard
           D      A              G   G/F# G/E   D
And it’s a hard   rain’s a-gonna fall

[Verse 4]
    D
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
                                   A
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
      G                 D
I met   a young child beside a dead pony
G                       D
  I met a white man who walked a black dog
G                      D
Met a young girl whose body was burning
G                 D
A young girl, she gave me a rainbow
G                     D
I met one man who was wounded in love
G                   D
Another man who was wounded with hatred

[Chorus]
           D                A                D      G
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, and it's a   hard-hard,
         D        A              G   G/F# G/E   D
And it's   a hard rain's a-gonna fall

[Verse 5]
D
What’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
                                     A
what’ll you do now, my darling young one?
      G                        D
I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-falling,
     G                         D
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest
          G                           D
Where the   people are many and their hands are all empty
      G                      D
Where  pellets of poison are flooding their waters
          G                             D
Where the  home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
          G                     D
Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden
      G                     D
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
      G                        D
Where  black is the color, and none is the number
         G                        D
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
      G                                 D
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
          G                     D
Then I’ll  stand in the ocean until I start sinking
         G                    D
But I’ll  know my song well before I start singing

[Chorus]
           D            A
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
           D              G
And it’s a ha, ha, ha ha, hard
           D    A               G   G/F# G/E   D
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall
           D                A
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
         D        G
And it’s    ha ha hard
           D      A    N.C.         G   G/F# G/E   D
And it’s a   hard rain....  a-gonna fall
           D                A
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
         D               G
And it’s so hard, oh oh, hard
           D      A    N.C.           G   G/F# G/E   D
And it’s a   hard rain's....  a-gonna fall