A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall Live Chords
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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 |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Capo: | no capo |
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[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

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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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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D G D
D G A
G A D
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