A Hard Rain' s AGonna Fall

Song A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Artist Bob Dylan
Album The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964

Lyrics

[00:00.00] Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
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[00:15.29] Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
[00:23.40] Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
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[00:31.21] I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
[00:38.03] I've walked and i've crawled on six crooked highways,
[00:45.12] I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
[00:51.76] I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
[00:58.74] I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
[01:05.54] it's a hard,it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
[01:14.06] A hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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[01:22.14] Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
[01:30.49] Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
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[01:38.31] I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
[01:45.31] I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
[01:52.03] I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
[01:59.03] I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
[02:05.88] I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
[02:12.83] I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
[02:19.89] I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
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[02:26.51] And it's a hard,it's a hard,it's a hard,and it's a hard,
[02:35.22] A hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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[02:42.78] And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
[02:50.70] And what did you hear, my darling young one?
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[02:58.20] I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
[03:04.95] I Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
[03:11.96] I Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
[03:18.68] I Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
[03:25.55] I Heard one person starve, i heard many people laughin',
[03:32.07] I Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
[03:39.39] I Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
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[03:45.70] And it's a hard,and it's a hard,it's a hard,it's a hard,
[03:54.52] And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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[04:02.36] Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
[04:10.26] Who did you meet, my darling young one?
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[04:17.80] I met a young child beside a dead pony,
[04:24.66] I met a white man who walked a black dog,
[04:32.27] I met a young woman whose body was burning,
[04:38.75] I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
[04:46.40] I met one man who was wounded in love,
[04:52.79] I met another man who was wounded with hatred
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[04:58.87] you bet it's a hard,it's a hard,it's a hard,it's a hard,
[05:08.23] A hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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[05:43.57] Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
[05:51.40] Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
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[05:59.48] I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
[06:06.38] I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
[06:13.21] Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
[06:19.90] Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
[06:26.84] Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
[06:33.78] Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
[06:40.67] Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
[06:47.59] Where black is the color, where none is the number,
[06:54.67] And i'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
[07:01.27] And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
[07:08.08] Then i'll stand on the ocean until i start sinkin',
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[07:15.07] But i'll know my song well before i start singin'
[07:22.22] But i'll know my song well before i start singin'
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[07:29.51] And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
[07:37.65] It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
[07:45.08] It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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