Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
And ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?
What did you see, my darling young one?
Saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
Saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
Saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
Saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
Saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?

And it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
It's a hard rain

What did you see, my blue eyed son?