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