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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Drop-D (D-A-D-G-B-e)
Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1963)
(Dylan)
From: "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan"
These are the chords played on the studio version from “Freewheelin’”.
The key is E, but it is played in D (Drop-D tuning) with a capo 2nd fret.
What makes this version interesting is the continuous drone in the verses.
Enjoy!
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capo 2nd fret
CHORDS
D-A-D-G-B-E
D 0-0-0-2-3-2
A 2-0-2-2-2(0)
G (0)2-0-0-3-3
G/D 0-0-0-4-3-3
A/D 0-0-0-6-5-5
D* 0-0-0-7-7-5
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INTRO
| D | % | G | D |
| D | % | % |
D G D
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
D A
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
G/D A/D D
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
G/D A/D D
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
G/D A/D D
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
G/D A/D D
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
G/D A/D D
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
D A [D]
And it’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
| D | % | G | D | % | % | % |
D G D
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
D A
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
G/D A/D D
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
G/D A/D D
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
G/D A/D D
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’
G/D A/D D
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’
G/D A/D D
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
G/D A/D D
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
G/D A/D D
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
D A [D]
And it’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
| D | % | G | D | % | % | % |
D G D
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
D A
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
G/D A/D D
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’
G/D A/D D
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
G/D A/D D
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
G/D A/D D
Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’
G/D A/D D
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’
G/D A/D D
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
G/D A/D D
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
D A [D]
And it’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
| D | % | G | D | % | % | % |
D G D
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
D A
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
G/D A/D D
I met a young child beside a dead pony
G/D A/D D
I met a white man who walked a black dog
G/D A/D D
I met a young woman whose body was burning
G/D A/D D
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
G/D A/D D
I met one man who was wounded in love
G/D A/D D
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
D A [D]
And it’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
| D | % | G | D | % | % | % | % | % |
D G | D | G | D | % |
And, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
D A
And, what’ll you do now, my darling young one?
G/D A/D D
I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’
G/D A/D D
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest
G/D A/D D
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
G/D A/D D
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
G/D A/D D
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
G/D A/D D
And the executioner’s face is always well hidden
G/D A/D D
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
G/D A/D D
Where black is the color, where none is the number
G/D A/D D
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
G/D A/D D
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
G/D A/D D
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’
G/D A/D D
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’
D A D G
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
D A [D]
And it’s a hard rai---n’s a-gonna fall
| D | % | G | D | % | D* | D
