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A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall by Tom Russell feat. Lucinda Williams & Calexico
A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall
Tuning: E A D G B E
[Intro]
G
[Verse 1]
C G
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
D
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
C D G
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
C D G
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
C D G
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
C D G
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
C D G
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
D G C
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G D G
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C G
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
D
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
C D G
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
C D G
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
C D G
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
C D G
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
C D G
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
C D G
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
C D G
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
D G C
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G D G
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C G
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
D
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
C D G
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
C D G
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
C D G
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
C D G
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
C D G
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
C D G
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
C D G
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
D G C
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G D G
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C G
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
D
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
C D G
I met a young child beside a dead pony
C D G
I met a white man who walked a black dog
C D G
I met a young woman whose body was burning
C D G
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
C D G
I met one man who was wounded in love
C D G
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
D G C
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G D G
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
[Verse]
C G
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
D
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
C D G
I'm a goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
C D G
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
C D G
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
C D G
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
C D G
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
C D G
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
C D G
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
C D G
Where black is the colour, where none is the number
C D G
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
C D G
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
C D G
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
C D G
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
D G C
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard and it's a hard
G D G
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
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