Key: G major•
Verse 1
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G
my blue -eyed son?
Oh, where have you been,
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G
of twelve misty mountains
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on six crooked highways
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G
of seven sad forests
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of a dozen dead oceans
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in the mouth of a graveyard
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And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
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D
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And it's a hard, it's a hard rain
What have you seen,
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my blue -eyed sun
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D
What have you seen, my darlin' young one
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G
with barbed wire all around her
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G
with nobody on it
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D
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blood that kept rippin'
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D
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with their hammers and pleas
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Csus2
I saw a wide ladder all
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G
covered with water
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G
whose tongues were all broken
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in the hands of young children
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G
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
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G
D
G
it's a hard, it's a hard life
And what did you hear,
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G
my blue -eyed son?
And what did you hear,
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it roared out a warning
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G
that could drown the whole world
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G
whose hands were ablaze
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G
and nobody listening
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C
I heard the song of a poet
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who died in the gutter
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D
I heard the sound of a clown who crushed
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And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard,
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D
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and it's a hard, it's a hard rain, gonna fall.
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D
And you did to me my darling of a woman
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D
G
I met a young child beside a dead pony
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D
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I met a white man who walked a black dog
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C
D
G
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
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D
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I met one man who was wounded in love
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G
wounded in hatred
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G
It's a heart, it's a heart, it's a heart
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G
D
G
It's a hard, it's a hard rain, on the farm
What do you do now?
I'm blue -eyed, son
What do you do now,
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G
before the rain starts falling
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of the deepest black forest
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G
and their hands are all empty
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are flooding their waters
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G
meets the damn dirty prison
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C
Where hunger is ugly,
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where souls are forgotten
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where none is the number
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G
and speak it and breathe in ,
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so all souls can see.
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until I start sinking,
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before I start to sing it.
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And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
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and it's a hard, it's a hard race
You
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ChordsG C D Csus2
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C
D
Csus2
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