Intro: | E | % | A | E | | E | % | % | Verse: 1 E A E Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? E B Oh, where have you been, my darling young one? A B E I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains A B E I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways A B E I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests A B E I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans A B E I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard E B E A And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard E B E : It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall Interlude: | E | % | A | E | % | % | % | Verse: 2 E A E Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? E B And what did you see, my darling young one? A B E I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it A B E I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it A B E I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’ A B E I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’ A B E I saw a white ladder all covered with water A B E I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken A B E I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children E B E A And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard E B E : And it’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall Interlude: | E | % | A | E | % | % | % | Verse: 3 E A E And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? E B And what did you hear, my darling young one? A B E I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warnin’ A B E I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world A B E I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’ A B E I heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’ A B E I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’ A B E I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter A B E I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley E B E A And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard E B E : It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall Interlude: | E | % | A | E | % | % | % | Verse: 4 E A E Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son? E B Who did you meet, my darling young one? A B E I met a young child beside a dead pony A B E I met a white man who walked a black dog A B E I met a young woman whose body was burning A B E I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow A B E I met one man who was wounded in love A B E I met another man who was wounded in hatred E B E A And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard E B E : It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall Interlude: | E | % | A | E | % | % | % | % | % | Verse: 5 E A | E | A | E | % | And, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son? E B And, what’ll you do now, my darling young one? A B E I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’ A B E I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest A B E Where the people are many and their hands are all empty A B E Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters A B E Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison A B E And the executioner’s face is always well hidden A B E Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten A B E Where black is the color, where none is the number A B E And I’ll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it A B E And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it A B E Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ A B E But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’ E B E A And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard E B E : It’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall Outro: | E | % | A | E | % | E | E
