A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall Live Chords

by Bob Dylan
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Concert forConcert for Bangla Desh 1971 / Dylan left out some lines from the studio version / different key / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYLclndwzo.Was this info helpful?
Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
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2 contributors total, last edit on Aug 10, 2024
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D
G
A
D7

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(George Harrison: Like to bring on a friend of us all, Mr. Bob Dylan!)
 
[Intro]
D
 
[Verse 1]
    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
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
     G                          D
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
      G                       D
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
     G                      D
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
          G                         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 rain's a gonna fall
 
[Verse 2]
    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
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
        G                        D
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
  G                       D
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
        G                           D
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
  G                                   D
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
      G                          D
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
           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
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall
 
[Verse 3]
    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
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
          G                         D
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
      G                          D
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
      G                           D
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
      G                          D
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
          G                  D
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
           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 rain's a gonna fall
 
[Verse 4]
    D                    G         D
Oh, who did you meet, my blue eyed son?
D                                  A
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
  G                   D
I met a young child beside a dead pony
  G                   D
I met a white man who walked a black dog
  G                       D
I met a young woman whose body was burning
  G                     D
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
  G                   D
I met one man who was wounded in love
  G                       D
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
       D                A            D                G
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 rain's a gonna fall
 
[Verse 5]
    D                      G         D
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue eyed son?
    D                                    A
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
      G                        D
I'm a goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a fallin'
     G                         D
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
          G                         D
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
          G                                    D
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
          G                            D
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
          G                     D
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
      G                     D
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
      G                       D
Where black is the color, and none is the number
         G                        D
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
  G                             D
Reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
          G                    D
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
         G                   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
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall
       D    A              D
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall
       D    A              D     D7
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall
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A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan
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4 comments
dave19er
To do the Laura Marling version (which is amazing), transpose to G (-9) and then capo 1. Use a C-style chord for D. Also, she drops several lines in each verse, and, I believe, drops the entire second to last verse.
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tj_cashman
This fits well with the 1975 rolling thunder version of the song. Listen for the timing and throw in an A chord for or 002020 on the first two lyrics of each verse. E-A-E---A---E Sounds nice and rhythmic on acoustic.
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goedani201
-2 4 D G D D G A G A D
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