Key: E major
Verse 1
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Oh, where have you been,
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my blue- eyed son?
Oh, where have you been,
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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 on six
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crooked highways
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I've stepped in the middle
of seven sad forests
I've been out in front 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
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a- gonna fall
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Verse 2
Oh, what did you see,
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my blue- eyed son?
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Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
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I saw a newborn baby with
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wild wolves all around it
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I saw a highway of diamonds
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with nobody on it
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I saw a black branch with
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blood that kept drippin'
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I saw a room full of men with their
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hammers a- bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
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I saw ten thousand talkers
whose tongues were all broken
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I saw guns and sharp swords in
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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, it's a hard
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And it's a hard rain's
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a- gonna fall
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Verse 3
And what did you hear,
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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
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drown the whole world
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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 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
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a- gonna fall
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Verse 4
Oh, who did you meet,
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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
I met a young woman
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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 an other man who was
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wounded with 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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Verse 5
Oh, what'll you do now,
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my blue- eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now,
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my darling young one?
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I'm a- goin' back out 'fore the
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rain starts a- fallin'
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I'll walk to the depths of the
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deepest black forest
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Where the people are many and their
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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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Where the executioner's face
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is always well- hidden
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Where hunger is ugly,
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where souls are forgotten
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Where black is the color,
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where none is the number
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And I'll tell it and think it and
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speak it and breathe it
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And reflect it from the mountain
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so all souls can see it
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Then I'll stand on the ocean
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until I start sinkin'
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But I'll know my song well
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before I start singin'
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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
Outro 1
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