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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

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Bob Dylan

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rafah
Tone
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Slide
A -> La
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Chords
	 
[Intro]
| E | % | A/E | E |

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