A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Chords by Bryan Ferry
- Key: Eb
- BPM: 125
- Capo: no capo
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A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL CHORDS
[Start] [Verse] Eb ■ Oh where have you been my blue eyed son Bb Where have you been my darling young one Ab Eb I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains Ab Eb Walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways Ab Eb Eb7 Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests Ab Eb Been out in front of a dozen dead oceans Ab Eb I've been ten thousand miles in a mouth of a graveyard [Chorus] Bb Eb Ab It's a hard and it's a hard and it's a hard and it's a hard Eb Bb Bb7 And it's a hard rain's ■ a gonna fall Ab Eb Oh ■ what did you see my blue eyed son Bb What did you see my darling young one [Verse] Eb Ab7 Eb I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves around it Ab Eb Eb7 I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it Ab Eb Eb7 I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin' Ab7 Ab Eb Eb7 I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin' Ab Eb ■ A white ladder all covered with water Ab Eb I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken Ab7 Eb I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children [Chorus] Bb7 Eb Ab And it's a hard and it's a hard and it's a hard hard ■ Eb Bb7 And it's a ■ hard rain's a gonna fall Ab Eb Ab Eb And ■ ■ ■ what did you hear my blue eyed son Bb7 Bb What did you hear my darling young one ■ [Verse] Ab Eb I heard the sound of thunder that roared out a warning Ab7 Eb Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world Ab Eb Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin' Ab7 Eb Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin' Ab7 Eb Ab7 Heard ■ one person starve many people laughin' Ab Eb Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter Ab Eb Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley [Chorus] Bb7 Eb Ab7 And it's a hard and it's a hard and it's a hard hard hard hard Ab Eb Bb Ab And it's a ■ hard rain's a gonna fall Eb Oh who you did meet my blue eyed son [Verse] Bb7 Who did you meet my darling young one Ab Eb Eb7 I met ■ a young child beside a dead pony Ab7 Eb Eb7 ■ I met a white man who walked a black dog Ab7 Eb I met a young girl whose body was burning Ab Eb Ab A ■ young girl she gave me a rainbow Eb I met one man who was wounded in love Ab Eb7 ■ Another man who was wounded with hatred [Chorus] Eb Bb7 Eb Ab And it's a hard and it's a hard and it's a hard Eb Bb7 And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall Ab Eb Oh ■ what'll you do now my blue eyed son Bb What'll you do now my darling young ■ one Ab Eb I'm goin' back out 'fore the rain starts fallin' Ab Eb Walk to the depths of the deepest black forest Ab7 Ebm7 Where people are many and their hands are all empty Ab7 Ab Eb Ebm7 Where pellets of poison are flooding the waters Ab Eb Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison Ab Eb Where the executioner's face is always well hidden Ab7 Eb Where hunger is ugly where souls are forgotten Ab Eb Where black is the color and none is the number Ab7 Eb And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it Ab7 Eb Ebm7 And reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it Ab Db Eb Then I'll stand in the ocean until I start sinking Ab Eb Bb But I'll know my song well before I start singing ■ Eb Ab Ab7 Eb ■ ■ And it's a hard it's ■ a hard and it's a hard Bb Ab And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall Eb Bb Bb7 Eb Ab7 ■ And it's a hard and it's a hard and it's a hard Eb Bb Ab And ■ it's a hard rain's a gonna fall Eb Bb Eb ■ And it's a hard and it's a ■ hard and it's a so hard Ab Eb Bb Ab Eb And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall ■ [Outro]