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