A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Song A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Artist Bob Dylan
Album The Concert for Bangladesh (Live)

Lyrics

[00:00.00] (George: Like to bring on a friend of us all, Mr. Bob Dylan!)
[00:36.11] Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
[00:40.83] And where have you been, my darling young one?
[00:47.48] I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
[00:53.08] I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
[00:58.88] I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
[01:04.25] I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
[01:09.70] I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
[01:13.73] It's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard,
[01:19.25] It's a hard, it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
[01:26.61] Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
[01:31.04] And what did you see, my darling young one?
[01:37.09] I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it,
[01:42.00] I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
[01:46.52] I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
[01:51.27] I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
[01:56.01] I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
[02:00.66] I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
[02:04.27] And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
[02:12.09] It's a hard, it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
[02:17.30] What did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
[02:22.03] And what did you hear, my darling young one?
[02:28.89] I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warnin',
[02:32.62] I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
[02:37.41] Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
[02:41.55] Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
[02:45.75] I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
[02:50.01] Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
[02:53.44] And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
[02:59.16] It's a hard, it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
[03:08.80] Who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
[03:12.76] Who did you meet, my darling young one?
[03:19.48] I met a young child beside a dead pony,
[03:25.02] I met a white man who walked a black dog,
[03:30.80] I met a young woman whose body was burning,
[03:36.51] I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
[03:40.79] I met one man who was wounded in love,
[03:45.21] I met another man who was wounded in hatred,
[03:49.10] It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
[03:54.32] It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
[04:05.99] Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
[04:11.10] And what'll you do now, my darling young one?
[04:17.14] I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
[04:22.58] I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest,
[04:26.70] Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
[04:30.39] Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
[04:34.32] Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
[04:39.02] The executioner's face is always well hidden
[04:44.52] Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
[04:48.38] Where black is the color and none is the number,
[04:52.60] And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
[04:57.14] Reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
[05:02.45] Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
[05:06.48] But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
[05:10.12] And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
[05:15.77] It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
[05:21.82] It's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[05:25.44] It's a hard rain's a gonna fall