A hard
rain’s gonna fall
D ~ ~
D
1. Oh, where have you been, my blue eyed son,
A
where
have you been, my darling young one ?
G D
I’ve stumbled on
the side of twelve misty mountains,
G D
walked and I’ve
crawled on six crooked highways,
G D
stepped in the
middle of seven sad forests,
G D
been out in front
of a dozen dead oceans,
- G
D
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a
graveyard.
D A D G
It’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
- D
A G - D
and it’s a hard rain’s gonna
fa.....ll.
D
2. And what did you see, my blue eyed son,
A
what
did you see, my darling young one ?
- G
D
I saw a new born baby with wild wolves around
it,
- G D
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
G D
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’,
- G D
I saw a room full of men with their hammers
a-bleeding,
G D
a
white ladder all covered with water,
-
G
D
I saw ten thousand talkers
whose tongues were all broken,
-
G
D
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of
young children.
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, hard, hard, hard,
- D
A G - D
and it’s a hard rain’s gonna
fa.....ll.
D
3. And what did you hear, my
blue eyed son,
A
what
did you hear, my darling young one ?
- G D
I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a
warning,
- G
D
heard
the roar of the wave that could
drown the whole world,
- G
D
heard
a one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’,
-
G
D
heard ten thousand whisperin’
and nobody listening,
-
G
D
heard one person starve, heard many people
laughing,
- G
D
heard
the song of a poet who died in the
gutter,
- G
D
heard
the sound of a clown who cried in
the alley.
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, hard, hard,
- D
A
G - D
and it’s a hard rain’s gonna fa.....ll.
D
4. Oh, who did you meet, my blue eyed son,
A
who
did you meet, my darling young one ?
- G D
I met a, a young child beside a dead pony,
G D
I met one man
who walked a black dog,
G D
I met young girls
whose bodies were burning,
G D
a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
G D
I met one man who was wounded in love,
G D
another
man who was wounded with hatred.
D A - D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, hard,
- D
A G - D
and it’s a hard rain’s gonna
fa.....ll.
D
5. Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue eyed son,
A
what’ll
you do now, my darling young one ?
G
D
I’m going back out ‘fore the rain starts a-falling,
G D
walk through the depths of the deepest
black forest,
- G D
where
the people are many and the hands
are all empty,
- G D
where
the pellets of poison are flooding
their waters,
- G D
where
the home in the valley meets the damp dirty
prison,
G D
where
the executioners face is always well hidden,
-
G D
where
hunger is ugly, where souls are
forgotten,
-
G D
where
black is the colour, where none is
the number,
G D
and I’ll tell it and think it and speak it
and breathe it,
G D
and reflect it
from the mountains so all souls can see it,
- G D
then
I’ll stand in the ocean until I
start sinking,
G D
but
I’ll know my song well before I start singing.
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s a ha-ha-ha-ha-hard,
- D A G - D
and it’s a hard rain’s gonna
fa.....ll.
D A - D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s a ha-ha-hard,
- D
A G - D
and it’s a hard rain’s - - - gonna
fall.
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, and it’s so hard, so so hard,
- D
A G - D
and it’s a hard rain’s - - - gonna
fall.
(orig. = capo 1st) (Bryan Ferry
/ Roxy Music)