Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics






Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
Walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
Stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
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 (Hard) and it's a hard (Hard)
It's a hard (Hard) and it's a hard (Hard)
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall (Fall)

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

I saw a new-born baby with wild wolves 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'

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 (Hard) and it's a hard (Hard)
And it's a hard (Hard), ha-ha-ha-hard (Hard)
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall (Fall)

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

I heard the sound of thunder, that roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'

Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin' (Hahaha)
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

And it's a hard (Hard) and it's a hard (Hard)
And it's a hard (Hard), hard, hard, hard (Hard)
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall (Fall)

Oh, who you did meet, my blue eyed son?
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
A young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
Another man who was wounded with hatred

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
What'll you do now, my darling young one?

I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
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 colour and none is the number

And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand in the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'

And it's a hard (Hard), it's a hard (Hard)
And it's a hard (Hard), ha-ha-ha-ha-hard (Hard)
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall (Fall)

And it's a hard (Hard) and it's a hard (Hard)
And it's a hard (Hard) (Hard)
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall (Fall)





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  1. L.... U....

    This song always reminds me of Day After Day by Badfinger..

  2. E.... W....

    Wow I never thought I would see such a thing. Such a beautiful song sung with such disrespect. I love Bryan Ferry

  3. P.... H....

    Part of my life.

  4. W.... P....

    Bryan didn't just cover a song he improved it.

  5. e.... d....

    Really cool version of this..I love Dylan's version, but this is a refreshing take on the song. woot!

  6. e.... t....

    Las chicas del coro, genial.

  7. j.... f....

    Great song. Had this one going through my head this morning as the election results came rolling in. Pretty apt I think..

  8. E.... M....

    Didn't know this existed-- the video not the song. Bryan looking good and sounding great.

  9. R.... M....

    Was Bryan influenced by Melanie Safka's version? I'm guessing he was.

  10. J.... H....

    Unique.

  11. K.... A....

    I never realized how dark this song is

  12. P.... C....

    Bryan's voice and the bands backing bring out the lyrical diversity in this song that Dylan couldn't do alone. Masterpiece

  13. T.... R....

    And now it's time to take a Ferry to an island called Bryan. Because it's Bryan Ferry.

  14. M.... ....

    But they are up there with Bowie and the Stones , I think so , all my friends
    think so..They were a top band. I've loved Roxy Music since the early seventies
    so I like to think I know what I'm talking about..Underrated Never..
    Berk never...lol.

    M.... ....

    When I first heard this I didn't even what fingering was wow how time flies just love this song

  15. G.... d....

    👋🏼 Honey 🍯

  16. C.... ....

    I love this, AND wish it had more than just 180 thumbs-down. Go figure.

  17. A.... R....

    Bryan's arranger, pianist and string section on this song is the now-legendary musician Eddie Jobson, only 18-years old here.

  18. p.... h....

    I was 9 years old when this came out. Thought it was amazing. Still do.

  19. P.... J....

    Did he ever own this? The UK Leon Russell and then some. Timeless gems. How can they have been so good. Days of future past?

  20. h.... w....

    "Guns and sharp sword's in the hands of young children".. London in 2019(

  21. C.... A....

    Could this be the best song cover ever! it is to me. Blows joe cocker out of the water. could it be one of the lamest clips too?

  22. N.... L....

    Nice cover ......sounds little like the rocky horror show.........Tim Curry

  23. J.... J....

    "I heard a clown who cried in the alley" gets me every time

    J.... J....

    And me....makes me wanna cry.

    J.... J....

    What does the clown sing/Say ?

  24. c.... s....

    he reminds me of vic reeves

  25. J.... M....

    Really thought this was Adam Driver at first.

  26. d.... ....

    Stingray British invasion: 70's led me to this clip.

  27. j.... g....

    Bob Dylan must have written this for Ferry.

  28. m.... b....

    To me the best Version

  29. R.... O....

    Bryan Ferry is the secret inventor of punkrock, house, and one direction.

  30. S.... R....

    I have loved the song since 1973 & here am I listening to it in 2019!!!

  31. 2.... ....

    Utterly horrible.

  32. g.... h....

    Brings back the memories !!!!

  33. J.... C....

    Bought the single when this song first came out, it was just fantastic , also more verses on it

  34. a.... ....

    his haunting voice was so unique

  35. a.... ....

    this guy shows the importance of originality.

  36. M.... S....

    This is 1973? Visually 80s

  37. T.... M....

    I can still remember every detail of what I was doing the first time I heard this, walking home from high school with a mouth full of chocolate and a kick arse transistor on 11 pressed to my ear.

  38. K.... ....

    when we were young :-)

  39. W.... B....

    Ein Song, wie ein Gewitter! Kraftvoll gut und Bryan singt grandios! Ich habe mir damals sofort die Single gekauft und liebe sie heute noch!!!

  40. J.... M....

    Love you Bryan Ferry

  41. J.... C....

    Absolutely magnificent. I love towards the end where he’s not quite sure what’s he’s wearing. Black crew neck t-shirt or denim shirt.

  42. I.... G....

    Best that!

  43. p.... h....

    Still wonderful.

  44. w.... p....

    My all time favorite version of this song

  45. C.... E....

    Who where the backing singers?

  46. R.... M....

    Roxy Music, so underrated, they belong up there with the Rolling Stones, Ferry = Genius !!

    R.... M....

    Underrated...lol..are you on medication..

    R.... M....

    ..hahaha...Berk.

  47. J.... M....

    Bryan always make covers his own, not many artist can pull that off...just saying

  48. g.... ....

    Bryan Ferry looked like a weird brother of Shakin' Stevens in his early days.

  49. p.... ....

    a hard rains gonna fall and it will all be over by dawn good luck xxx

  50. R.... N....

    This version (and this is not meant as an insult ) seems like something that would have fit well with The Rocky Horror Picture Show - especially the female backup singers. I like Bryan Ferry and Rocky Horror so it's a win-win for me.

    R.... N....

    I thought the same thing.

  51. N.... B....

    Fuck yeah this song rocks! It's nature of the song is about devistation, war, hunger it looks like! "IT'S A HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR! ♥️

  52. R.... K....

    Bryan Ferry

  53. m.... l....

    a bob dylan song

  54. H.... ....

    Why is the quality so bad?

  55. 2.... ....

    Fucken Pissed off, Where were the Lyrics of " What did you See " . He saw the Guns and Sharp Swords in the hands of young children. Fucken editors back then.

  56. L.... H....

    💞💞💞

    L.... H....

    God bless the musicians...!!!

  57. F.... ....

    What happened to verses two and four?

  58. B.... P....

    👍👍👍🤓👍 what more can I say......👍🇬🇧🤓

  59. T.... m....

    uploadありがとうございました<(_ _)>❤(。☌ᴗ☌。)(★‿★)

  60. A.... W....

    brilliant cover

  61. C.... E....

    beter than bob dylans oi oi

  62. M.... L....

    another great artist from the greatest decade for music

  63. h.... ....

    Bryan Ferry has nailed this Dylan cover. Bravo!

  64. B.... ....

    Female singers really make this so special.

  65. B.... c....

    Sat in the middle of 7 sad forests 😀

  66. 4.... ....

    Top song done by a top performer

  67. H.... C....

    Great cover of the Dylan classic

  68. K.... M....

    A great cover!

  69. F.... O....

    👏❤❤❤

  70. D.... ....

    ale gówniane xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

  71. W.... B....

    Als der Song 1973 erschien, war ich "hin und weg"! Auch heute noch finde ich ihn fantastisch. Ich habe ihn bestimmt 1.000 x gehört!

  72. j.... s....

    Always thought about Ferry as a bit of an arsehole back in the 70s.
    Hard rock and all that.
    But listening to stuff like this makes you have a rethink 😁

  73. A.... H....

    I don't generally like covers/interpretations, but Ferry owns this!

  74. m.... -....

    its a so,and its a so and its a so good so so good and its a so good so so good
    its a sooo good Ferry take !!! : )

  75. I.... L....

    Sempre fantastico

  76. J.... F....

    pretty weird

  77. s.... ....

    Wow! Wardrobe changes at thee 2:00.

  78. V.... R....

    Jealous Guy Better?

  79. m.... ....

    As good as Leon Russell's version !

  80. S.... C....

    B. Ferry & Sisters of Mercy...

  81. V.... K....

    I love this version so much!

  82. g.... ....

    Bryan Ferry is just SO GOOD!! DAMN!

  83. c.... b....

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  84. k.... l....

    the isreali zionist mossad agents motto is make war by deception for profit .
    this explains why Jew Zionist PM Howard Jesuit UK PM Bliar Lucifarian Yale Skull and Chlld Boner Holleywood Eyes Wide Shut NSW Freemasonic Cabalistss Australian Fiona Barnett Reported To Recent Australian Royal Commission into Insitutional Child abuse And ABC 666 Lucifarian Jew Jesuits Fienburg Cerburus (covered in Netflix Movie Secret City) owned Dyncorp Rumfelt Newscorp Murdoch and his Melbourne Nephew Mat Hanbury CEO Raincorp Have been paid 10 million dollars by Jesuit Pedo Cardinal Pell Protecting Cecil Rhodes Scholar East West india Company KKK drugs arms slaver CIA Sicilian Mafia Osirus Cock In Sock Handpuppet Political Puppets of Isreali Rothschilds Zionists PM Netinyahoo fans like OZ PM Abbott and this was aproved by Jew ex Goldman Sachs Agent Zionist PM Turnbull and Spraying Australians with Chemtrails of Alumina Berium Strontium Nano Particals and using PINE GAP EXMOUTH HAARP Directed Energy Weapons of Mass Destruction Dr Judy Woods Says cused 7 World Trade Center Buildings in New York to be Turned into Dust whilst in Non Resistent self Evident Expert Controled Demolitioon which the Insurer Larry Silverstein part of Sir Frank Lowey Westfield Group admited approving Pulling by Controlled Demolition and Made 7 billion or so in suspected Insurance fraud mass murder assisted by Dyncorp Rumsfelt (exposed by USA Greens Senator Cynthia Mckinney to have stolen 6.7 Trillion dollars from USA Taxpayers Dept OF Defence Pentagon Budget) and this money given to private USA Defence Service Contractor Dyncorp appears to be funding isreali zionists terrorism along with Afgan Taliban Nato General Mckrystal USA General Petrayus Buildaburger Runnaway General Pakistani Awan Brothers DNC IT Systems Administrators who were syncing USA Secretary of State Secrets of Hilary Clintons Unsecured Email Servers to Foreign nations to help with Taliban Pakistani Zionst puppett Heroin Smuhlng of East West India Company drugs arms slaver Vatican Crown Columbia Private Reserve Bankster Warmongers and thier Subsiduary Private reserve banks like Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowey , and Lowey Insititute Nazi Uboat French Malay Red Shirt Communist Chines MH370 remote controled hijackers of planes approved by Lowe Insitute and jew PM Turnbull approved builing Nazi collaborating NewZealand Rainbow warrior Maralinga South Australia Atomic Bombing GE Fukushima Daichi Sabotures israeli Zionist Nazi French Uboats in South Australia which will not enhance South East Asian Economic and Security insterets of Anglo American style Constituinoal Democracies in South East Asia Much as these Red Shirt yellow Shirt Taiwanese Triats are using Hegelian Dialectic and Soft Drug cannabis Prohibitoins to prevent Hemp Textile non Toxic Biodegradable Clothing and Electric Vehicle industries from being Unfettered these prohibitions and wars in South Asia funded and engineered by Zionist Big bankster and Black Hole Gravitational idiocy of Einstien Openhiamer Black Nobility are Isreali PM Netinyahoo Bron Hole licking Osirus Cock in Sock Hand Puppetts who all appear to have premature dementure like Trump and Cynthia Mckinney USA Greens senate Enquire proved those who Appear to have Premature Dementure are like Alan Bond and Benasigate Clinton testimony Sid blumanthall asisted murderers of USA Consular Officials in Lybia probably Criminal mafia Cabalst Freemasonic Rothschilds Zionist Blackmailed or Bribed Eyes Wide Shut Pedophilic Elite nichol Kidman MKULTRA Monarch Program Victums and probably are Zombies psychopathic Killers Fiona Barnett Exposed to Recent Australian Royal Commision into Insitutional Child abuse the Dancing Isreali Zionist Sydney Synagog Goers Jew PM Turnbull Jesuit Abbot Jew PM Howard NSW Premier Jewess Berijiklian Bingo Cleanaway Ipswitch QLD Toxic waste from Sydney Dumping Mafia Zionists areintentionaly toxifying Australia QLD Premier Anna Bligh Turned a blind Eye to thisTreason and is now Spokesperson for Private Reserve and other banks in 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money was ripped off Michelle Young this pays for Geo Engineering Chemtrail spraying Worlds Oceans and Weather wars heat waves fires and floods droughts Volcanic eruptions Bali Java Sumatra and in Greece and UK are Geo Engineered weather wars USING DEW WMD DR JUDY WOODS SAYS ALSO DID TWIN TOWERS turning SEVEN!!! WTC TWIN Towers building into Dust 2001 911 , Jew PM Howard and ABC Newscanchor Deborah Knight was in washington USA 911 and have lied to the Australian and worlds public for 16 years about the Number of buildings collapsed 911 and also Howard Bush Bliar lied about Weapons of mass destruction IRAQ and jew PM Howard paid a 295 milllion dollar bribe to Iraq President Sadam Hussain in the 1990s via a CIA Front Jordianian Trucking Company in the AWB wheat oil guns scandalous fundeing of Suni Iraq sadam hussains terrorism and a senate enquiry led to AWB being renamed Graincorp so Suncorp Powercor appear to be Private reserve banksters racketeering corpoations profiting from Geo Engineering weather wars many other corporatinos with the Saturn Symbols Telstra Optus all privatise by ENRON Executive fake Calefornian Power outage Racketeers like Sole Trejulio seem to be part of Talpiot project Brendon Occonel Talks about so privatised Outsourced Ge Capital IT Services and GE FUKUSHIIMA DAIICHI TEPCO let in Haim Siboni with Owl Atomic Gun Weapons and Stuxnet Virus to sabotage Nucliear Power plant controles and syncronize steam generatin from power plants which can also be used to cause floods for insurance racketeers rothschilds zionists are driving farmers bankrupt and thier MOA is to cause wars and insurgencies and revolutions when there is blood in the streets these Private Reserve banksters baptist KKK Jesuits anclican Scotish York Jacobean Bhavarian General Elecrtric Mafia Nazi Zionsts control Dyncorp Rumsfelt and Senate Enquiry of USA Senator Mckinney saw , the Dyncorp Military Staffer say USA Air Defence Military excercises on the 2001 911 improved USA responses to the so Called Terror attack which killed 3500 and put a missile into the Pentagon "HOW MUCH WORSE CAN IT HAVE BEEN" particulary since these terrorist Zionists hegelian Dilecrtic users have not yet been Jailed it can GET A LOT WORSE AND WILL IF THIS SEDITION IS NOT STOPPED ASAP and ABC News anchors jailed for Materialy aiding this false flag Treason, it is a crime, and we Australians like me Son of an Anzac Royal Engineer Lt Colonal Norman T Jelbart OBE surrogate Grandson of WW2 Royal Engineer General Sir Clive Steel think Dyncorp Newscorp Raincorp DEW WMD patente Technolgy PM Abbott Jew PM Turnbull ex CEO Goldman Sachs OZ did it with remote controled pretend hijacked planes Newcorp Murdoch made a movie with Pretty woman Producer Aron Milchan who admited stealing USA Nukes For Isreal and being an Iserali spy made a movei with Newscorp Murdoch about a Remote Controled Plane Flying into Twin Towers NY that aired on TV 6 months before 2001 911 Twin Towers blatent False flag treason and its suspected Eyes Wide shut crowd Father of Nichol Kidman Dr Anthony Kidman Chief Psychiatrist NSW Beyond Blue Beoynd Boarders Haiti Organ Harverstors Lolita Jet to Epstein Pedophile Island Yale Skull and Child boners Bohemia Grove Fiona Barnett Rapists associates Presdent Nixon Baptist Pastors Like Lawrence King Boystown Jesuits Franklin Coverup users of male teenage minors as hookers to White House officials thenBlackmailing them exposed by Late Poisoned FBI Chief Ted Gunerson Pedogate Pizagate Pedesta Brothers Clinton Foundation Disabiity insurance Scheme Service providers Anglicare Roman catholic Islamist Saudi Arab Zionist Osirus Obalisque Penus Woshiping Cock in Sock Hand puppets of Isreali Zionists like Mayor Guliani President Trumps Corporate Fasicsists know a lot more about this treasonous mass murder of USA Civilians they are letting on this is implied by Dr Judy Woods in "where did the Towers Go"). Jew PM Howard the Iraq WMD Lies are war crimes all involved must be charged in international courts with materialy aiding Terror and Treason.

  85. s.... h....

    Beauty.

  86. L.... T....

    I’m sure I read awhile ago that the backing singers were young men dressed as ladies.

    L.... T....

    On the record, the backing vocal was provided by the Angelettes who had a minor hit that year with Don't Let Him Touch You. I think they appeared on one of the Top of the Pops appearances.

  87. k.... ....

    Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
    Oh, 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, 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?
    Oh, 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, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
    And 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?
    I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’
    Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
    Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
    Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’
    Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’
    Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
    Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
    And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
    And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

    Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
    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, 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?
    Oh, 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 think it and speak 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, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
    It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

  88. M.... S....

    Great track looks like kylo ren from star wars!

  89. m.... -....

    BRILLIANT FERRY, I SAW THIS WHEN IT CAME OUT AND I HAVE TO SAY, BRYAN FERRY IS THE BEST EVER BRITISH ROCK STAR : )

  90. F.... A....

    Forever a good song❤️❤️

  91. J.... L....

    Another brill cover by Bryan

  92. T.... ....

    great cover from my youth.Dexy's breaking down the walls is nearly as good

  93. J.... R....

    Looks a bit like Neville Longbottom in the last Harry Potter film

  94. M.... D....

    AND IT'S A HARD! :P

  95. j.... ....

    Awesome. Thank You for this.

  96. A.... A....

    AMAZING SONG A LITTLE DIFFERENT WHEN I JUMPED BACK INTO THE FUTURE,. OH JESUS HANDED ME A BEER AND SAID TO ME NOT MUCH TIME LEFT, BETTER GET ANOTHER BEER, DONT WORRY ISLAM KILLERS DONT GET A COLD BEER THEY GET HELL FIRE., ISLAM YOU CAN NOT STABB YOUNG WOMEN IN THE EYES AND GUGULAR VAIN, , LONDON BRIDGE ATTACKERS AND THINK YOU GO TO HEAVEN ,,ISLAM YOU GO TO HADES , HELL ,

  97. J.... M....

    Absolutely genius!!

  98. F.... ....

    He completely sucks the meaning out of it.

  99. N.... N....

    So many memories ! beautiful track and seems like yesterday !

  100. o.... ....

    And the Hard Rains keep a Falling. Class act performing lyrics that will always be relevant.