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A Hard Rains Gonna Fall Tab

by George Harrison


Written by Bob Dylan. This is former 'Beatles legend George Harrison's version.



(George: Like to bring on a friend of us all, Mr. Bob Dylan!)



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

      				        
Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?
                              
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
                              
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
                              
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
                              
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
                              
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
                              
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
                              
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
                              
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
                                                       
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
                                   
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall

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

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

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

Enjoy!