Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Released Date: 1963/05/27

Label: Columbia

Genre: Folk

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall　6'55"

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

I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it's a hard, and it's a hard

And it's a hard, and it's a hard

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

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?

And 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 a white ladder all covered with water

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

And it's a hard, and it's a hard

And it's a hard, and it's a hard

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

Oh, what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?

And what did you hear, my darling young one?

I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warnin'

I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world

I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'

I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'

I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'

I Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter

I Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

And it's a hard, and it's a hard

And It's a hard, and it's a hard

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

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?

And 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 a young woman whose body was burning

I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow

I met one man who was wounded in love

I met another man who was wounded with hatred

And it's a hard, and 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?

And what'll you do now, my darling young one?

I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'

I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest

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

Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten

Where black is the color, where none is the number

And I'll tell it and speak it and think 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'

And it's a hard, and it's a hard

It's a hard, it's a hard

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

（以下為本人翻譯之中文歌詞）

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颱風又要來啦～～窗外開始下起了雨，此時聽這首歌好像再適合不過。

娜塔一直很喜歡 Bob Dylan 早期經典歌曲的詩意，這首〈A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall〉也在其中。去年 Patti Smith 代替好友狄倫伯領取諾貝爾文學獎並演出的時候，選的表演曲目就是這首歌。雖然表演過程中頻頻由於緊張而失誤，但我個人是可以理解啦，雖然這首歌歌詞確實極具文學之美，可是真的好難順暢記住^^"

希望颱風只帶走世間眾多的紛擾，而人人平安。