A HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL

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

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And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
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and it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

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2. Oh what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
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And what did you see, my darling young one?
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I saw a new born baby with wild wolves all around it,
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I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
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I saw a black branch with blood that kept dripping,
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I saw a room full of men with their hamrners a-bleeding,
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I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
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I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
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I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.

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3. And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
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And what did you hear, my darling young one?
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I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warning,
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I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
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I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazing,
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I heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening,
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I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing,
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I heard the sang of a poet who died in the gutter,
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I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley.

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4. Oh who did you rneet, rny blue-eyed son?
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And who did you rneet, rny darling young one?
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I rnet a young child beside a dead pony,
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I rnet a white man who walked a black dog,
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I rnet a young wo man whose body was burning,
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I rnet a young girl, she gave rne a rainbow,
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I met one man who was wounded in love,
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I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

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5. And what'll you do now, rny blue-eyed son?
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And what'll you do now, rny darling young one?
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I'rn a going back out before the rain starts a-falling,
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I'll walk to the depth of the deepest dark forest
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where the people are rnany and their hands are all ernpty,
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where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
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where the horne in the valley rneets the darnp dirty prison
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and the executioner's face is always well hidden,
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where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten,
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where black is the colour, where none is the number.
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And I' 11 tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it
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and reflect frorn the rnountain so all souls can see it.
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Then I' 11 stand on the ocean until I start sinking
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but I'll know rny song well before I start singing:

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M + T: Bob Dylan
©Copyright 1963 M. Witmark & Sons, USA.
®Copyright Renewed 1991 Special Rider Music, USA.
All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.

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