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