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A Hard Rain s A-gonna Fall lyrics

(feat. Rufus Wainwright & Shawn Colvin)
(Bob Dylan)

[Originally by Bob Dylan]

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?
And where have you been my darling young one ?
I ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I ve walked and I ve crawled on six crooked highways
I ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it s a hard, it s a hard, it s a hard, and it s a hard
It s a hard rain s a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son ?
And what did you see, my darling young one ?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand takers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it s a hard, it s a hard, it s a hard, and it s a hard
It s a hard rain s a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?
And what did you hear, my darling young one ?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin
I heard ten thousand whisperin and nobody listenin
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it s a hard, it s a hard, it s a hard, it s a hard
And it s a hard rain s a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded and hatred
And it s a hard, it s a hard, it s a hard, it s a hard
And it s a hard rain s a-gonna fall.

And what ll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?
And what ll you do now my darling young one ?
I m a-goin back out fore the rain starts a-fallin
I ll walk to the deepths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner s face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I ll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin
But I ll know my songs well before I start singin
And it s a hard, it s a hard, it s a hard, and it s a hard
It s a hard rain s a-gonna fall.
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