A Hard Rains Gonna Fall

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[Verse 1]
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Where have you been, my blue-eyed 
son?
Where have you been, my darling 
       A
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                        
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the
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 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           
And it’s a  hard  rain’s a-gonna 
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fall

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

{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 
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna 
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fall

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[Verse 3]
    D
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed 
son?
And what did you hear, my darling 
      A
young one?
            G                      
I heard the sound of a thunder, 
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that roared out a warnin’
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Heard the roar of a wave that could
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 drown the whole world
           G                   
Heard one, one hundred drummers 
       D
whose hands were a-blazin’
      G                           
Heard ten thousand whispering and 
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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              
And it’s a hard   rain’s a-gonna 
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fall

[Verse 4]
    D
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed 
son?
Who did you meet, my darling young 
A
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     
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, 
           D      G
and it's a   hard-hard,
         D        A              
And it's   a hard rain's a-gonna 
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fall

[Verse 5]
D
What’ll you do now, my blue-eyed 
son?
what’ll you do now, my darling young
 A
 one?
      G                        D
I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain 
starts a-falling,
     G                        
I’ll walk to the depths of the 
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deepest dark forest
          G                    
Where the   people are many and 
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their hands are all empty
      G                     
Where  pellets of poison are 
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flooding their waters
          G                        
Where the  home in the valley meets
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 the damp dirty prison
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Where the executioner’s face is 
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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
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And I’ll tell it and think it and 
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speak it and breathe it
      G                            
And reflect it from the mountain so
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 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
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna 
   G/F# G/E   D
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.         
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And it’s a   hard rain's....  
a-gonna fall