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