Hard Rain

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Hard Rains A-Gonna FallLyrics by Bob Dylan
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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
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of twelve misty mountains,
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I've walked and I've crawled
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on six crooked highways,
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I've stepped in the middle
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of seven sad forests,
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I've been out in front
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of a dozen dead oceans,
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I've been ten thousand miles
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in the mouth of a graveyard,
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And it's a hard, and it's a hard,
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it's a hard, and it's a hard,
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And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
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And, what did you see, my darling young one?
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I saw a newborn baby
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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
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with blood that kept drippin,
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I saw a room full of men
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with their hammers a-bleedin,
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I saw a white ladder
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all covered with water,
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I saw ten thousand talkers
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Whose tongues were all broken
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I saw guns and sharp swords
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in the hands of young children,
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And it's a hard, and it's a hard,
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it's a hard, and it's a hard,
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And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
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And what did you hear, my darling young one?
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I heard the sound of a thunder,
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it roared out a warnin',
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Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the
whole world,
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Heard one hundred drummers
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Whose hands were a-blazin,
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Heard ten thousand whisperin
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And nobody listenin,
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Heard one person starve,
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I heard many people laughin,
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Heard the song of a poet
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Who died in the gutter,
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Heard the sound of a clown
                                               
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Who cried in the alley,
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And it's a hard, and it's a hard,
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it's a hard, it's a hard,
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And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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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?
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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 whose 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
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who was wounded in hatred
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And it's a hard, it's a hard,
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it's a hard, it's a hard,
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It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
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Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
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I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts
a-fallin',
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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
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meets the damp dirty prison,
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And the executioner's face is always well
hidden,
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Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
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Where black is the color, where none is the
number,
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And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and
breathe it,
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And reflect from the mountain so all souls can
see it,
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Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start
sinkin',
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But I'll know my song well before I start
singin',
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And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
it's a hard,It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.