Where have you been
My blue eyed son?
Where have you been
My darling young one?
I stumbled on the side
Of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled
On six crooked highways
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
Ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard And it's a hard
It's a hard
And it's a hard
It's a hard It's a hard rain
Is a-gonna fall. What did you see, my blue eyed son? And what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it A highway of diamonds with nobody on it Saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin' Room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin' Saw a white ladder all covered with water I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children And it's a hard, and it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard, it's a hard rain, is a-gonna fall. And what did you hear my blue-eyed son? What did you hear my darling young one? I heard the sound of thunder that roarded out a warning. I heard the roar of the wave that could drowned the whole world. I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin. I heard ten thousand whisperin and nobody listenin. I heard one person starve and I heard 10 people laughin. I heard the song of a poet who died in a gutter. I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley. Now, now, Aha, aha And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard, and it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. What do you do now, my blue-eyed son? What do ya do now, my darling young one? I'm goin back out for the rain starts a fallin, Walk through the depths of the deepest dark forests, Houses in the valley meet the damp dirty prison, Where hunger is ugly and souls are forgotten, And I'll tell it, and think it, and speak it, and breath it, and reflect from the mountains so to all souls see it. I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking, but I'll know my song well before I start singing and it's hard, oh it's hard, it's a hard, hard Hard, hard and it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. oh you know it, it's a hard, hard, hard rain's fall. Hard rain fallin, hard rain.