Chords for A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? _ _ _ _
_ _ Oh, where have you been, my darling [F] young one? _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] I've stumbled on the side [F] of twelve [Bb] misty mountains. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] I've walked and I've [F] crawled on six [Bb] crooked highways.
[Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ I've stepped in the middle [F] of seven [Bb] sad _ _ [Eb] forests. _
_ _ _ I've been out in front [G] of a dozen [Bb] dead oceans. _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] I've been ten thousand miles [G] in the mouth [Bb] of a graveyard.
_ And it's hard, [Dm] and it's _ hard, and [Bb] it's hard, and it's hard, [Eb] and it's _ hard.
It's hard _ _ [G] _ _ _
[F] [Bb] rains are gonna fall. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? _ _ _
_ _ _ Oh, what did you see, my darling [F] young one? _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] I saw a newborn babe with [F] wild wolves [Bb] all around it. _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] I saw a highway of diamonds [F] with nobody [Bb] on it. _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] I saw a black branch [G] with blood that [Bb] kept dripping. _ _ _
_ _ I [Eb] saw a room full of men with their [F] hammers [Bb] a-bleeding. _ _ _
_ _ I [Eb] saw ten thousand [G] talkers whose tongues were all [Bb] broken. _ _ _ _
_ _ I saw [Eb] guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.
_ And it's hard, and it's [C] _ hard, and it's _ hard, and it's [Eb] hard. _
It's hard _ _ _ [F] _ _
rains are gonna fall. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Oh, what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? _ _ _
_ _ _ And what did you hear, my [F] darling young one?
I _ _ _ _ [Eb] heard the sound of a thunder [F] as it roared [Bb] out a _ warning. _ _
_ _ [Eb] I heard the roar of a wave that [F] could drown the [Bb] whole world. _ _ _
_ I [Eb] heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a [Bb]-blazing. _ _ _ _
_ I [Eb] heard ten thousand whispering and [Bb] nobody listening. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] I heard one person starve.
I heard many [Bb] people laughing. _ _ _ _ _
I [Eb] heard the song of a poet [F] who died [Bb] in the gutter. _ _ _ _ _
I heard [Eb] the sound of a clown who cried in [Bb] the alley. _ _ _ _ _
And it's hard, and it's _ hard, and it's hard, and it's [Eb] hard. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] It's hard rains are gonna fall. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, who did you meet, my [F] darling young _ one? _ _ _ _ _ _
I met a young child [G] beside [Bb] a dead pony. _
_ _ _ _ _ I met a white man [F] who walked a [Bb] black dog.
_ _ _ _ _ I met a young woman [F] whose body [Bb] was burning. _
_ _ _ _ _ I met a young girl, [F] she gave me [Bb] a rainbow. _ _
_ _ _ _ I [Eb] met one man who was wounded in [Bb] love, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
who was wounded [Bb] in hatred. _
And it's hard, and it's [F] _
hard, and it's _ hard, and it's [Eb]
hard.
It's hard _ _ _
[C] _ _ rains are gonna fall. _ _
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_ _ _ _ I'll only do now, my blue-eyed son. _ _
_ _ _ _ I'll only do now, my darling [F] young one. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [F] When the rain [Bb] starts falling, _ _
_ _ _ _ where I'll walk to the [Eb] depths of [F] the deepest [Bb] dark forest, _ _
_ _ _ _ where the people are [Eb] many and [G] their hands are [Bb] all empty, _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] where the pellets of poison [F] are flooding their [Bb] water, _ _ _
_ _ _ where the [Eb] home in the valley [G] meets the damp, dirty [Bb] prison, _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] where the _ executioner's face [F] is always [Bb] well hidden, _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] where hunger is ugly, where [F] souls [Bb] are forgotten, _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] where black is the color and none is the [Bb] number, _ _ _ _
and [Eb] I'll tell it and think it [F] and speak it [Bb] and breathe _ _ it _
and [Eb] reflect on it so [F] all souls [Bb] can see it,
_ and _ [Eb] I'll stand on the ocean [F] until I start [Bb] sinking,
_ _ _ _ _ but I'll [Eb] know my song well before I [Bb] start singing.
_ And it's hard, and it's [F] _ hard, and it's hard, and [Eb] it's hard.
_ [Bb] It's a hard _
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ rains are [Bb] gonna fall. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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