{"id":22007,"date":"2025-03-08T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=22007"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:00:40","slug":"a-hard-rains-gonna-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/a-hard-rains-gonna-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Verse 1]\r\nOh, [G] where have you been, my [C] blue-eyed [G] son?\r\nAnd [G] where have you been, my darling young [D] one?\r\nI\u2019ve [C] stumbled on the side of [D] twelve misty [G] mountains\r\nI\u2019ve [C] walked and I\u2019ve crawled on [D] six crooked [G] highways\r\nI\u2019ve [C] stepped in the middle of [D] seven sad [G] forests\r\nI\u2019ve [C] been out in front of a [D] dozen dead [G] oceans\r\nI\u2019ve been [C] ten thousand miles in the [D] mouth of a [G] graveyard\r\nAnd it\u2019s a [G] hard, it\u2019s a [D] hard, it\u2019s a [G] hard, it\u2019s a [C] hard\r\nIt\u2019s a [G] ard rai-[D]--n\u2019s a-gonna [G] fall\r\n  \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nOh, [G] what did you see, my [C] blue-eyed [G] son?\r\nTell me [G] what did you see, my darling young [D] one?\r\nI saw a [C] newborn baby with wild [D] wolves all [G] around it\r\nI saw a [C] highway of diamonds with [D] nobody [G] on it\r\nI [C] saw a black branch with [D] blood that kept [G] drippin\u2019\r\nI saw a [C] room full of men with their [D] hammers a-[G]-bleedin\u2019\r\nI [C] saw a white ladder all [D] covered with [G] water\r\nI saw [C] ten thousand talkers whose [D] tongues were all [G] broken\r\nI saw [C] guns and sharp swords in the [D] hands of young [G] children\r\nAnd it\u2019s a [G] hard, it\u2019s a [D] hard, it\u2019s a [G] hard, and it\u2019s a [C] hard\r\nAnd it\u2019s a [G] hard rai-[D]--n\u2019s a-gonna [G] fall\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nAnd [G] what did you hear, my [C] blue-eyed [G] son?\r\nTell me [G] what did you hear, my darling young [D] one?\r\nI heard the [C] sound of a thunder that [D] roared out a [G] warnin\u2019\r\nI heard the [C] roar of a wave that could [D] drown the whole [G] world\r\nI heard [C] one hundred drummers whose [D] hands were a-[G]-blazin\u2019\r\nI heard [C] ten thousand whisperin\u2019 and [D] nobody [G] listenin\u2019\r\nI heard [C] one person starve, I heard [D] many people [G] laughin\u2019\r\nI heard the [C] song of a poet who [D] died in the [G] gutter\r\nI heard the [C] sound of a clown who [D] cried in the [D] alley\r\nAnd it\u2019s a [G] hard, it\u2019s a [D] hard, it\u2019s a [G] hard, it\u2019s a [C] hard\r\nIt\u2019s a [G] hard rai-[D]--n\u2019s a-gonna [G] fall\r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nOh, [G] who did you meet, my [C] blue-eyed [G] son?\r\nTell me [G] who did you meet, my darling young [D] one?\r\nI [C] met a young child [D] beside a dead [G] donkey\r\nI [C] met a white man who [D] walked a black [G] dog\r\nI [C] met a young woman, her [D] body was [G] burning\r\nI [C] met a young girl, she [D] gave me a [G] rainbow\r\nI [C] met one man who was [D] wounded in [G] love\r\nI [C] met another man who was [D] wounded in [G] hatred\r\nAnd it\u2019s a [G] hard, it\u2019s a [D] hard, it\u2019s a [G] hard, it\u2019s a [C] hard\r\nIt\u2019s a [G] hard rai-[D]--n\u2019s a-gonna [G] fall\r\n  \r\n[Verse 5]\r\nSo, [G] what\u2019ll you do now, my [C] blue-eyed [G] son?\r\nTell me, [G] what\u2019ll you do now, my darling young [D] one?\r\nI\u2019m a-[C]-goin\u2019 back out \u2019fore the [D] rain starts a-[G]-fallin\u2019\r\nI\u2019ll [C] walk to the depths of the [D] deepest dark [G] forest\r\nWhere the [C] people are many and their [D] stomachs are [G] empty\r\nWhere the [C] pellets of poison are [D] flooding their [G] waters\r\nWhere the [C] home in the valley meets the [D] damp dirty [G] prison\r\nAnd the [C] executioner\u2019s face is [D] always well [G] hidden\r\nWhere [C] hunger is ugly, where the [D] souls are [G] forgotten\r\nWhere [C] black is the color, where [D] none is the [G] number\r\nAnd I\u2019ll [C] tell it and speak it and think it and [G] breathe it\r\nAnd [C] reflect from the mountain so [D] all souls can [G] see it\r\nThen I\u2019ll [C] stand on the ocean [D] until I start [G] sinkin\u2019\r\nBut I\u2019ll [C] know my song well [D] before I start [G] singin\u2019\r\nAnd it\u2019s a [C] hard, it\u2019s a [D] hard, it\u2019s a [G] hard, and it\u2019s a [C] hard\r\nIt\u2019s a [C] hard rai-[D]--n\u2019s a-gonna [G] fall \r\n\r\n[G]<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
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[Verse 1] Oh, [G] where have you been, my [C] blue-eyed [G] son? And [G] where have you been, my darling young [D] one? I\u2019ve [C] stumbled on the side of [D] twelve misty [G] mountains I\u2019ve [C] walked and I\u2019ve crawled on [D] six crooked [G] highways I\u2019ve [C] … CLICK TO VIEW SONGA Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,116,117,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-dylan","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-rainy-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29870,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007\/revisions\/29870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}