Chords for A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall by The Staple Singers from Faith and Grace

[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh, where have you been, my wandering son?
_ Where have you been, my [G] staring [Bb] young one?
_ _ _ [Ab] I've stumbled _ alongside a trail [Eb] of misty mountains.
_ Trail _ _ of-
[Bb] I've walked and [Ab] I've crawled along six [Eb] crooked highways.
_ Six crooked highways.
[Ab] I've been out in the front [Ebm] of a dozen [G] dead [Eb] _ oceans.
Dead oceans.
_ _ [Ab] I've kept in the _ middle of a seven [Eb]-sack forest.
Forest. _ _ _
And [Bb] ten thousand [Ab] _ miles in the [Bb] mouth of a [Eb] graveyard.
Ah.
_ _ [Bb] _ And it's a heart.
It's a heart.
And it's a heart.
It's a heart.
And [Eb] it's a heart.
It's a heart.
[Ab] It's a heart.
It's a heart.
[Eb] _ _ _
On a fall.
On a fall. _
_ _ Oh, what did you see, my wandering _ _ son?
What did you see, my darling [Bb] young one?
_ _ _ [F] [Ab] Saw a newborn _ baby with wild [Cm]
[Eb] wolves all around it.
All around it.
_ [Ab] Saw a highway of a dam runs with _ [Eb] nobody on it.
Nobody _ _ on it.
[Ab] I saw a black branch with blood that [Eb] kept _ dripping.
_ Blood kept dripping.
[Ab] Saw a room full of men with the [Ebm] hammers of [Eb] bleeding. _
Hammer bleeding.
Saw [Ab] ten thousand talkers whose tongues [Eb] are all broken.
_ _ Tongues all _ broken.
[Ab] Saw guns and sharp swords in the hands [Eb] of young _ children. _ _ _
Children.
And it's a heart. _ _ _
It's a [Bb] _ _ heart.
[Eb] It's a heart.
It's a heart.
[Ab] And it's a heart.
It's a heart.
[Eb] _ _ _ On a fall.
On a fall. _ _ _
How hard it is to hear my wandering _ son.
_ What's easy to hear my darling [Bb] young one.
_ _ I heard the sound of a [Ab] thunder that rolled [Eb] out of.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I [Bb] heard the _ [Ab] roars of a wave that could drown the [Eb] whole world in.
Drown _ _ it.
[Ab] I heard one man stop.
I heard many [Eb] people laughing.
_ Many people laughing.
I heard [Ab] the sound of a poet that died [Eb] in the gutter. _ _ _ _ _
I heard the [Ab] sound of a clown who cried [Eb] in the alley. _ _
_ _ _ I [Ab] heard a one [Eb] hundred drama whose hands were _ blazing.
I _ _ _ [Ab] heard the sound of a one person who said he [Eb] was a human. _ _ _
_ _ And it's a heart.
_ [G] _
_ It's a _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Eb] heart.
_ It's a heart.
[Ab] It's a heart.
It's a heart.
_ [Eb] _ _
On a fall.
On a fall.
Who _ _ _ _ needs me, _ my wandering _ son. _
Who needs me, _ [Cm] my darling [Bb] young one.
_ _ _ [Ab] I met a young child _ beside [Eb] her bedpony.
_ Smiley. _ _
_ [Ab] I met a white man who walked a [Eb] black dog. _ _
Walked a black dog.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] He was a burning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ She gave [Eb] me a rainbow.
Who _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ was wounded [Eb] in _ love.
Wounded in love.
_ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] Had ten thousand whispering and _ [Eb] nobody listening. _
Nobody _ _ listening.
And [Bb] it's a heart. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] It's a heart. _ _ _
[Ab] It's a heart.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ It's a heart.
On a fall.
On a fall. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Who needs _ _ me, my darling young [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] one.
I'm [Gb] going back [Cm] out before the rain [Eb] starts to _ fallin'.
Rain starts fallin'.
[Ab] I walk through the depths of the deepest [Ebm] dark forest.
_ Deepest dark forest.
_ _ [Ab] _
[Gb] People are.
_ [Ab] And their hands [Eb] are all empty.
_ Empty. _ _
_ [Ab] Where the pellets.
The poison of the blood [Eb] in their water.
Blood in their water.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Cm] Valley meets the damp [Eb] dirty prison.
_ _ Damp dirty prison.
[Ab] And the _ executioner's face is always [Eb] well hidden.
[Bb] _ Always.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] Black is the color.
Where none is the [Bb] number.
_ [Eb] None.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ Ugly and souls [Eb] are forgotten.
_ Souls are forgotten.
_ [Ab] I'll tell it and think it and speak it [Eb] and breathe it.
Speak it and breathe it.
And [Ab] reflect on the mountain so that all souls [Eb] may see it.
All souls may see it.
[Ab] And I'll stand on that old shiner until I [Eb] start a-sinking.
_ Until I start a-sinking.
But I'll [Ab] go somewhere _ before _ [Eb] I start singing.
[Bb] Before I [Ebm] start singing.
And it's a heart.
It's [Bb] a heart.
And it's a heart.
It's a heart.
And [Eb] it's a heart.
It's a heart.
[Ab] It's a heart.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ Rain's gonna fall.
Gonna fall. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And it's a heart, _ rain's gonna fall. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _