BOB DYLAN - A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall lyrics

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