[Verse 1]
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Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
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And 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, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
       D        A             [ D ]
It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
 
 
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[Verse 2]
    D                    G         D
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
    D                                  A
And what did you see, my darling young one?
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I saw a newborn 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 drippin’
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I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’
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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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And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
           D        A             [ D ]
And it’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
 
 
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[Verse 3]
    D                     G         D
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
    D                                   A
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
            G/D                     A/D          D
I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warnin’
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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-blazin’
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I heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’
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I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’
            G/D                A/D         D
I heard the song 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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And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
       D        A             [ D ]
It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
 
 
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[Verse 4]
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Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
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Who did you meet, my darling young one?
  G/D                 A/D         D
I met a young child beside a dead pony
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I met a white man who walked a black dog
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I met a young woman, her body was burning
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I met a young girl, she gave me 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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And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
       D        A             [ D ]
It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
 
 
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[Verse 5]
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And, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
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And, what’ll you do now, my darling young one?
      G/D                      A/D           D
I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’
     G/D                       A/D          D
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest
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Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
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Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
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Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
        G/D                   A/D         D
And the executioner’s face is always well hidden
      G/D                       A/D          D
Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten
      G/D                       A/D         D
Where black is the color, where none is the number
         G/D                      A/D          D
And I’ll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it
    G/D                          A/D           D
And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
          G/D                  A/D         D
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’
         G/D                 A/D          D
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’
           D            A            D                G
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
       D        A             [ D ]
It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall