Key: C# minor
Verse 1
my blue- eyed son?
And 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
Verse 2
in the mouth of a graveyard
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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
I met a young woman whose body
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was burning
I met one man who was wounded
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in love
I met another man who was wounded
with hatred
Verse 3
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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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Verse 4
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my green- eyed son?
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An d what did you see,
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wolves all around it
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with nobody on it
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that kept drippin'
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ham mers a- bleedin'
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tongues were all broken
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I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands
of young children
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Verse 5
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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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Verse 6
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my brown- eyed son?
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And what did you hear,
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my darling young one?
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I heard the sound of a thunder that
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roared out a warnin'
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I heard the roar of a wave that could drown
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and nobody listenin'
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I heard one person starve,
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I heard many people laughin'
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I heard the song of a poet who
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died in the gutter
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I heard the sound of a clown who cried
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in the al ley
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Verse 7
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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
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
eyed son?
And what'll you do now,
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my darling young one?
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I'm goin' back out 'fore
the rain starts a- fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest
black forest
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Where the people are many and their hands
are flooding their waters
meets the damp dirty prison
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And the executioner's face
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is always well hidden
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and none is the num ber
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And I'll tell it and speak it and think
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it and breathe it
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all souls can see it
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I start sinkin'
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well before I start singin'
Verse 9
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it's a hard,
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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, it's a hard
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It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
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it's a hard
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it's a hard, it's a hard
Interlude 2
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Verse 10
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It's a hard, 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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Outro 1
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