A E A D E 


[Verse]
A                             E        A
Oh, where have you been, my blue eyed son?
      A                       D           E
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
       D                      E            A
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
      D                         E             A
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
       D                       E         A
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
       D                  E            A
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
           D                        E            A
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
            A                 E           A               D
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
             A   E              A   D E
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall


[Verse]
      A                       E        A
And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?
      A                       D          E
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
       D                     E                 A
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
       D                      E                 A
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
       D                      E                 A
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
       D                      E               A
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
       D                       E              A
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
       D                      E           A
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
       A                       E          A
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
            A                 E           A               D
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
             A   E              A  D  E
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall


[Verse]
      A                      E        A
Oh, who did you meet, my blue eyed son?
      A                      D      E
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
       D                      E    A
I met a young child beside a dead pony
       D                      E      A
I met a white man who walked a black dog
       D                       E     A
I met a young woman whose body was burning
       D                      E      A
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
       D                       E    A
I met one man who was wounded in love
       D                       E       A
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
            A                 E           A              D
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
             A   E            A   D  E
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall


[Verse]
      A                       E        A
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue eyed son?
      A                       D          E
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
       D                      E             A
I'm a goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a fallin'
       D                      E               A
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
       D                       E              A
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
       D                       E         A
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
       D                       E        A
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
       A                       E        A
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
       A                       E     A
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
       A                       E     A
Where black is the color, where none is the number
       A                       E              A
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
       A                       E         A
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
       A                       E         A
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
       A                       E         A
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
            A                 E           A               D
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
             A   E             A  D  E
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall