Where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the edge of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stood in the center of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouths of the graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
What did you see, my blue-eyed son?
What did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
What did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
What did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
I heard ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
It's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Well, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met three young women, they gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin' it
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall