@@Sandy24417 I wish I had you beat, but I too am 67 and a Dylan fan for 53 years. He adopted this song from an old Scottish border ballad, Lord Randal. Dylan and I go way back to LSD and the beginning of the universe.
I don't know if tears come to my eyes because it's such a beautiful song or I'm emotionally overwhelmed at the magic and genius I'm witnessing. The same way that people get emotional at seeing a beautiful painting or sculpture I think it's both. We are all so blessed to have lived in this man's lifetime.
My dad went to a Bob Dylan concert at a friend’s high school in 64/65. Bob arrived an hour late, he was drunk, he sat down and pulled out a harmonica, and it was the best concert ever.
Yeah this is last song my cousin asked to hear just before he died just a little bit ago. My eyes did there own hard, hard, rains fall... gonna miss you Aaron Matthew Deal...may the Lord welcome you into his house with many mansions....Rest in Peace . Gonna miss you
An Indian man uploading the video of a magician musician from US and the world coming together under it. Somehow connected. Somehow a universal message.
Im from Turkey, listening to this at 2 am now on loop, worried about the hard rain in my future, while reminsicing about my unforgettable 2 years in Albany, NY, the beautiful. Much love.
*People who knew Bob claim he was a mediocre Harmonica player and guitar player, and then he left for two months and returned with these prolific songs, finger-picking smooth guitar playing, and unique harmonic expression. He's such a mystery. I wonder what made him change so fast, and become this creative force of nature. He's probably the most legendary living person.*
SpaceFlowerAesthetic He "borrowed" a record collection from a friend who put him up on his sofa when he was roughing it. It was a extensive collection covering folk and blues records. The friend got his record collection back, having been informed by a mutual friend. It was a ugly scene, but what Dylan soaked up from this episode benefited music greatly, so you can't blame Bobby too much! A excellent book, the best Dylan book is "No Direction Home, The Life and Times of Bob Dylan" by Robert Sheldon. Published in 1986 this book had extensive interviews with Dylan's parents & friends and although unauthorized has not been disputed by Dylan himself. A newer edition with added material was printed in 2011 but I haven't seen the newer version.
IN 1962 my brother and I gobbled up his first album in which he does have finger picking and rhythmic skills. And on the later song Wallflower which may be available un bootlegged he displays a particular authentic vocal performance totally capable, in tune and warm. The knock on him was that he couldn't sing, I disagreed. I guess the thing with Bob is he does not desire to pursue ordinary recording business perfection he played and sang in an abstract way when he was solo and wants it to be a little loose and spontaneous.
My country been destroyed It was horrible war in the 90 s in the middle of Europe I cant explaine how strong feelings got me when I listen this song !!! God bless you all children of love
When a prophet speaks, the people must listen. "Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters" "Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison" "Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten" . These words echo down the decades to spur to action those with ears to hear and eyes to see before the hard rain falls.
Life's hard knocks all in there, closest description to what it feels like living in this world when things are not as you'd hope them to be. Disappointment, struggle, betrayal, cruelty everything so beautifully and poetically articulated by one so young at the time. How could he know and feel this? Astonishing ❤
that's so nice to hear! be open to all. Some songs are not all great but have at least one hidden gem within. I agree this is among the very greatest of songs!
I watched A Complete Unknown yesterday. I needed to forget about the travesty happening in DC. It brought back the feelings of those years, even though I was younger. The feeling that the world was going to explode. I sobbed through these songs. They were still so relevant and powerful. I just kept thinking where all the voices? Where are those voices that called to us during that difficult time?
as joan baez said: "youre so good with words and to keep things vague". Dylan words is timeless because he never finishes a subject, he never gives answers, he just asks or just tell a story. a bad ass fucking genius
@@Lucasmatheus211 and in my opinion, that is the point.. The times they're a-changin.. nowadays more than last year.. ☹️ i cannot stop liking his songs.. He's a poet.. 😉
Not even close, because of people like W.B. Yeats, RM Rilke, TS Eliot, FG Lorca, etc. These are far deeper poets than Dylan, and I respect Dylan immensely, but we should know him for what he is, and not what others would have him be.
Patrick O'Brien I take it you just pulled that out of a hat. Posting Latin phrases on the internet doesn't make you an intellectual. Especially when you try to preach about indignation while simultaneously asserting your false sense of superiority.
@@youtubeofficial8392 Hehe. What a riot. It's not a pi$$ing contest. The latin reference is well known where I come from. I assume you did a search on it... well search a little further and understand its origin, and then you will see the point. No false sense of superiority here at all, since no sense of superiority. My point to @Justsomeguy is that it's not a level playing field, and Dylan compares in no way to serious writers. He's a gifted melodist and writer of short lyrics, but it ends there. The OP called Dylan the "greatest poet of the 20th Century", and I'm saying: not even close.
@bobsmith-ji2uh It means that especially back in the day (the 50s and 60s), being black was for a lot of people considered an animal or a number meaning worth nothing or little. So Dylan enunciats with the lyrics that he disagrees with that statement and considers black a colour just like white so equal.
@ I wonder if anyone can offer up an explanation of how Bob could have been SO brilliant and prolific. It's genuinely incomprehensible to me. I mean, it's not like this was his only masterpiece song..... Its Alright Ma, Masters of War, Mr. Tambourine Man, Desolation Row.... the list of course never ends.... HOW? Someone please tell me how this man could have wrote THAT many amazing songs AND memorized them all......
@ I'm not particularly spiritual but I think that's the most plausible explanation for it. Bob was tapping into something divine. No doubt about it. It's also interesting you mention Google and Facebook. Im 21, and constantly wonder how social media and search engines have hindered my ability to tap into my humanity. All I know at this moment is Bob Dylan was on another level haha.
I am 65 years old now 2020 ,we had a couple of hippies in our kinship clan , I heard this in 1966 on a 8 track tape in a car,going for a beer run with some cousins, I was 12 years old listing to some of the most wondrous poetry of the time. later I thought lay lady lay was the best love song in the world .
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, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard 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, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard 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 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' 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, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Oh, what 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 in hatred And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall And 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 a 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 And 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 and speak it and think it and breathe it And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' But I'll know my song well before I start singing And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Basically gave us a vision and described all what was to come in our mad crazy world . How a 21 year old lad could write this leaves me speechless . Thankfully their are young people like me who loves Dylan’s music and will never let it die.
I read once that Dylan had the ideas for a hundred songs and yet because of tensions with Cuba was afraid he'd never get the chance to write them so he combined them into Hard Rain because at least he would have a chance to write it. Dylan was the voice of his generation is not quite right. He is the voice of all generations
I am mystified that this utter brilliance could come from someone so young. I love his most recent songs too - hope he puts some new originals out soon.
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It's amazing how Bob Dylan's music continues to resonate through time. Our doesn't matter what else is happening in the world, Dylan's lyrics just seem to have relevance. I would suggest that makes him a genius as far as I'm concerned. Brilliant stuff, Mr. Zimmerman, thank you
Been listening 50 Years or so. The Lyrics original the social milieu the truth poetry - Can always listen to Dylan. Central, Florida Born and raised here 67 Years now.
Amazing. Like a Biblical prophecy. Where did this come from ? How could this have entered and emerged from the head of a young man in his early twenties ? And yet this is one small sample of Dylan's many changes in direction, style, and content - always exploratory, always restless, always questing. Truly a genius
In a 60 Minutes interview, Dylan says he himself doesn't know where all these songs came from, just that they all came out of him, many very quickly and all at once. When asked if he could write music like this now, he pauses only a moment, and says No. It seems that the Dylan of the 60s is a foreign person even to Dylan now.
Some have the "gift", some don't. Bob Dylan was blessed with a "mighty pen". How do you explain the spirit and soul? Each soul has a Gift, most don't find it, buy Bob Dylan has. I feel blessed to be alive, during the time of this 'Pulitzer Prize' winning "Great Musical-Humanitarian." 🇨🇦✌🏻🎶🎸❤️
We can all look back at the time and place when we were at our peak. But only in our wildest dreams could we ever go here. Only Bob was ever this good and this touched by a higher power.
I have listened to this song so many times now, and this is how I sum it up in my own mind. I've seen, listened too, and met some good but a lot of bad in life, and you ask me what im going do now? Im going to face it all because I've learnt that this is what it is to be alive, and that's what we have to do. It's all we can do.
The last verse is so hopeful! It, indeed, reminds me of my own "blue eyed son, darling young one", who was born an "old soul." He has always been aware, since childhood, of economic injustice, climate change, the challenges faced by various people, etc. I pray the young will lead us all out of this dark period in history, with God's guidance and an abundance of love. 🤗💖🙏
So many beautiful and tragic images in one song. Simply amazing! I met a young child beside a dead pony. That single line sticks with me always. No words.
Blown away by this song. Heard it just now for the first time with Patti Smith singing it at the Noble Prize Award Ceremony 2016 where they were awarding Bob for the Noble Prize - Literature and came here to hear him sing it himself. lovely.
Never fails to bring tears to my eyes regardless of how many times I listen to it... breathtaking lyrics from a uniquely gifted Robert Allen Zimmerman ..
only people who were there when Dyaln first came on the scene can understand how powerfully different he was from what were were used to. I was 13 years old, sitting in the back seat of a car when I first heard Dylan. He was singing "Ramona". I kept thinking"WoW!. And when the song was done I said to myself: This guy is going to be big! For once I was right. As for what he became...that's maybe another story.
@@0live0wire0 Exactly he'd already released 3 albums before that and was an influential cultural figure before anyone was thinking "wow this guy is going to big" after hearing '"To Ramona" in the back seat of a car
I'm now 67, and I've been listening Bob Dylan for 50 years. A part of my best roots. From France, frienship to all.
so am i
d'alemagne: ich bin wesentlich jünger - 66 - und höre dylan seit 45 jahren. vive bob dylan et la france!
I'm also 67 and I've been listening to him for 53 years. :) Most certainly a part of my best roots too.
@@Sandy24417 I wish I had you beat, but I too am 67 and a Dylan fan for 53 years. He adopted this song from an old Scottish border ballad, Lord Randal. Dylan and I go way back to LSD and the beginning of the universe.
@@herbertluthe6850 ❤️
Seen COMPLETE UNKNOWN on January 1st 2025 IT WAS GREAT!!!!!
Just saw it as well, I really liked it!!
I don't know if tears come to my eyes because it's such a beautiful song or I'm emotionally overwhelmed at the magic and genius I'm witnessing. The same way that people get emotional at seeing a beautiful painting or sculpture I think it's both. We are all so blessed to have lived in this man's lifetime.
it's interesting to look at how romantic comments under videos of old music tend to be
I totally agree!!
Yesssss 100%
Amen to that. You phrased it perfectly.
Nicely said..
The Nobel prize in one performance.
In 1966 my 11th grade literature class spent two weeks on this poem/lyrics. What a great teacher he was!
cool teach eh?
That's what I'm doing now!
Right on! ✌️
Same here, in 1992.
Probably wouldn’t let your teacher do that in Texas now. To liberal.
My dad went to a Bob Dylan concert at a friend’s high school in 64/65. Bob arrived an hour late, he was drunk, he sat down and pulled out a harmonica, and it was the best concert ever.
This is hands down one of the best songs ever written. God bless Bob Dylan 💯💯💯💯💯💯
Not even in Dylan’s top ten shows how amazing he was
You right
Eu tenho certeza que essa é mesmo uma das melhores músicas do mundo, eu faria uma dissertação pra provar isso
I can’t even put into words how beautiful and heartbreakingly relevant these songs still are.
Yeah this is last song my cousin asked to hear just before he died just a little bit ago. My eyes did there own hard, hard, rains fall... gonna miss you Aaron Matthew Deal...may the Lord welcome you into his house with many mansions....Rest in Peace . Gonna miss you
@@snowstephenanderson801Am sorry for your loss. 🙏🙏
If you’re a fucking woke left yes 😂 read Thomas Sowell. The greatest American that’s lived. And there ain’t many 😂
very few things are this perfectly done. and rarer still by a man so young. literally epic.
Couldn't have said it better myself. It's perfection.
and prophetic, too!
Amen, praise the Lord.
the bombs never dropped
not yet...
An Indian man uploading the video of a magician musician from US and the world coming together under it. Somehow connected. Somehow a universal message.
Im from Turkey, listening to this at 2 am now on loop, worried about the hard rain in my future, while reminsicing about my unforgettable 2 years in Albany, NY, the beautiful. Much love.
what’s the point of mentioning that you’re from Turkey?
@@user-tb5hs6pf2m middle east-north america. Two continents apart and Bob still shines through, across the oceans... Thats what Ive been tryinna say
@@kulsevdasi
Cool, but I think all American content is all over the world, I'm from the middle east too btw :)
@@user-tb5hs6pf2m Yeah it definitely is. But people here generally have adapted to upbeat, pop stuff. Bob is more emotional.
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*People who knew Bob claim he was a mediocre Harmonica player and guitar player, and then he left for two months and returned with these prolific songs, finger-picking smooth guitar playing, and unique harmonic expression. He's such a mystery. I wonder what made him change so fast, and become this creative force of nature. He's probably the most legendary living person.*
SpaceFlowerAesthetic
He "borrowed" a record collection from a friend who put him up on his sofa when he was roughing it. It was a extensive collection covering folk and blues records. The friend got his record collection back, having been informed by a mutual friend. It was a ugly scene, but what Dylan soaked up from this episode benefited music greatly, so you can't blame Bobby too much! A excellent book, the best Dylan book is "No Direction Home, The Life and Times of Bob Dylan" by Robert Sheldon. Published in 1986 this book had extensive interviews with Dylan's parents & friends and although unauthorized has not been disputed by Dylan himself. A newer edition with added material was printed in 2011 but I haven't seen the newer version.
Well, he went down to the crossroads, fell down on his knees. The rest is history.
yes I remember him saying he didn't know where this period of creativity came from, and that he can't do it anymore/ since!
Never write off anyone…, good advice. Give Joe a chance 😂😂
IN 1962 my brother and I gobbled up his first album in which he does have finger picking and rhythmic skills. And on the later song Wallflower which may be available un bootlegged he displays a particular authentic vocal performance totally capable, in tune and warm. The knock on him was that he couldn't sing, I disagreed. I guess the thing with Bob is he does not desire to pursue ordinary recording business perfection he played and sang in an abstract way when he was solo and wants it to be a little loose and spontaneous.
Bob and Patti the greatest poets of our generation ( I am only 79).🇸🇪
"I met one man who was wounded in love. I met another man who was wounded in hatred"
I love those lines.
My country been destroyed
It was horrible war in the 90 s in the middle of Europe
I cant explaine how strong feelings got me when I listen this song !!!
God bless you all children of love
Bobby was only 21 when he wrote this song. Today its 2017 and its been 55 years ago since he wrote this wonderfull great song
Not only that, he's STILL touring! :D
Yes I was born about same year as Bob! I grew up in LYRICS since i was 13...... HIS lyrics taught me a LOT!!!!
And still not a song wrote to equal it
What are you? His Mommy?
Gross!
@@lynnmiller3937 "I met another man who was wounded in hatred"? hmm
Why aren't there 1 billon views for this ?????
If there's any one man that should be remembered down the centuries for his contributions to popular music, it's Dylan.
He will be.
don't worry about that. his words will resound
His finest creation. the length, lyrical depth and complexity and the guitar tone- pure magic!
This is magnificent, but I would say that Desolation Row is his magnum opus, imo.
I can’t listen to this song without crying
When a prophet speaks, the people must listen. "Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters" "Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison" "Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten" . These words echo down the decades to spur to action those with ears to hear and eyes to see before the hard rain falls.
Very well said
Life's hard knocks all in there, closest description to what it feels like living in this world when things are not as you'd hope them to be. Disappointment, struggle, betrayal, cruelty everything so beautifully and poetically articulated by one so young at the time. How could he know and feel this? Astonishing ❤
I'm 16. All my friends listen modern music, but i like to listen this is legend. Unique song, world won't hear alternative. Deep lyrics
Same, i'm 23 and i grew up with his music ! It's crazy that he still alive.
I hope young people like keep this music alive. Maybe some day you could perform it.
that's so nice to hear! be open to all. Some songs are not all great but have at least one hidden gem within. I agree this is among the very greatest of songs!
ugh shut up
Dylan is fantastic, but I urge you to give modern music a chance, too. Beautiful art is beautiful no matter what year it was released
I watched A Complete Unknown yesterday. I needed to forget about the travesty happening in DC. It brought back the feelings of those years, even though I was younger. The feeling that the world was going to explode. I sobbed through these songs. They were still so relevant and powerful. I just kept thinking where all the voices? Where are those voices that called to us during that difficult time?
Who would have imagined that in 2020 Dylan’s music would become so chillingly relevant once again?
as joan baez said: "youre so good with words and to keep things vague". Dylan words is timeless because he never finishes a subject, he never gives answers, he just asks or just tell a story.
a bad ass fucking genius
completamente
Has it ever been not relevant? It is timeless. That is his genius.
@@Lucasmatheus211 and in my opinion, that is the point..
The times they're a-changin.. nowadays more than last year..
☹️ i cannot stop liking his songs..
He's a poet.. 😉
Dylan has never not been relevant
How wonderful that we are still able to enjoy this rare, raw and untouched version of this great song. Preserved for eternity, I hope.
Yup everyone now says we always on phones or comps ... Without tho we wouldn't be able to play this each day
It's a song that makes me cry. So powerful.
Arguably the greatest poet of the 20th century.
there is a guy named Leonard Cohen....and John Prine....
Not even close, because of people like W.B. Yeats, RM Rilke, TS Eliot, FG Lorca, etc. These are far deeper poets than Dylan, and I respect Dylan immensely, but we should know him for what he is, and not what others would have him be.
Um? Townes van Zandt?
Patrick O'Brien
I take it you just pulled that out of a hat.
Posting Latin phrases on the internet doesn't make you an intellectual. Especially when you try to preach about indignation while simultaneously asserting your false sense of superiority.
@@youtubeofficial8392 Hehe. What a riot. It's not a pi$$ing contest. The latin reference is well known where I come from. I assume you did a search on it... well search a little further and understand its origin, and then you will see the point. No false sense of superiority here at all, since no sense of superiority. My point to @Justsomeguy is that it's not a level playing field, and Dylan compares in no way to serious writers. He's a gifted melodist and writer of short lyrics, but it ends there. The OP called Dylan the "greatest poet of the 20th Century", and I'm saying: not even close.
Pure music genius. What a great gift to all humanity. Long live Bob Dylan.
Still one of the best songs of all time, so appropriate for present time.
“When black is a colour and none is a number” that’s deep
Well just so you know, it's "where black is the color and none is the number", but yeah, you got it anyway
@@TheChadPad Oh yes my fault. But either way it has a deep meaning.
I met a young woman she hummed me a dinger. Levity.🎉
What’s it mean?
@bobsmith-ji2uh It means that especially back in the day (the 50s and 60s), being black was for a lot of people considered an animal or a number meaning worth nothing or little. So Dylan enunciats with the lyrics that he disagrees with that statement and considers black a colour just like white so equal.
He was just 21-years-old when he wrote this song...
@ I wonder if anyone can offer up an explanation of how Bob could have been SO brilliant and prolific. It's genuinely incomprehensible to me. I mean, it's not like this was his only masterpiece song..... Its Alright Ma, Masters of War, Mr. Tambourine Man, Desolation Row.... the list of course never ends.... HOW? Someone please tell me how this man could have wrote THAT many amazing songs AND memorized them all......
@ I'm not particularly spiritual but I think that's the most plausible explanation for it. Bob was tapping into something divine. No doubt about it. It's also interesting you mention Google and Facebook. Im 21, and constantly wonder how social media and search engines have hindered my ability to tap into my humanity. All I know at this moment is Bob Dylan was on another level haha.
Joey the only answer is Satan.
He went to the crossroads and made a big deal...
And me 18 when I listened to it
Written and performed by a genius.
21 years old and writing lyrics like that? Astonishing.
Yep
LSD does that to you
been in the room above the shop where many songs came to life. typewriter is still there.
and so MANY songs like it.....
@@wetbadger2174 more like speed
beyond perfection.....as complete and right as a clear blue sky.....
Perfect. How could anyone put these words together?!! Hard truths.....
Yes, truly
"And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breath it."
You're damn right I will.
Poets for president.
Over the past 55+ years he's done just that.
"You burst on the scene already a legend...the unwashed phenomenon, the original vagabond..."
Diamonds And Rust By Joan Baez ❤
She did him a good turn.
I am 65 years old now 2020 ,we had a couple of hippies in our kinship clan , I heard this in 1966 on a 8 track tape in a car,going for a beer run with some cousins, I was 12 years old listing to some of the most wondrous poetry of the time. later I thought lay lady lay was the best love song in the world .
Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
He could have stopped at Blowin' in the Wind and been a legend, but no, stunning creativity burst forth for decades.
bob will continue to create and perform until his last breath. after that, his songs will continue to breathe on their own ..... forever.
His bondage to riches kept him going. He is Jewish. Not meant to tarnish his talent.
This hits my soul. Thank you Bob Dylan.
I've loved this song since I was a teenager and now I'm 40 and I have a blue eyed son and it feels like our song. Thanks Bob!
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, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
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, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
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 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'
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, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what 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 in hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And 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 a 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
And 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 and speak it and think it and breathe it
And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singing
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Ray Ursillo thanks
Ray Ursillo thanks
Ray Ursillo thank you.
Thank you for the lyrics.
Thank you for the lyrics!
The great lyricist's greatest lyrics. Extraordinary, hair-raising verses.
Dylan songs are heavy in my heart these last few days. Stay safe and know you are loved dear people!
This is above and beyond.He paints the world as it is.
I'm 70 and this song is now more meaningful than when it was written.
A masterpiece, my favourite Dylan song ❤
Basically gave us a vision and described all what was to come in our mad crazy world .
How a 21 year old lad could write this leaves me speechless .
Thankfully their are young people like me who loves Dylan’s music and will never let it die.
Similar to how a child named Greta Thunberg could silence us all so powerfully and completely. Sometimes the genius is just there.
he is an old soul who came back to earth to be a light unto all people who seek truth.
I read once that Dylan had the ideas for a hundred songs and yet because of tensions with Cuba was afraid he'd never get the chance to write them so he combined them into Hard Rain because at least he would have a chance to write it. Dylan was the voice of his generation is not quite right. He is the voice of all generations
Another one of the greatest songs written by the greatest singer/songwriter of all time.
The most Bob Dylan song that Bob Dylan had ever Bob Dylaned.
it's so bob Dylan that Eddie Brickell and John Mayer make it sound better
YES!
We have come full circle since the 60’s. It’s time to once again put people first, not soulless corporations. Earth is counting on us.
Just pure genious, I am in awe of this wonderful human being, may he live long
I am 76, Dylan's words have been in my head for 60yrs and I will take them with to the oven.
I am mystified that this utter brilliance could come from someone so young. I love his most recent songs too - hope he puts some new originals out soon.
My dad served the Vietnam war and he would hear these songs. Just straight 60s. Wonder how it was back than.
Everything he sings ... is magic.
Best song ever, my fav Dylan song
Transcendent. How does one so young write poetry and music that seems so beyond their years?
Old soul
Another master piece from the great Bob Dylan.
A beautiful song by a genius... priceless....
He's a legend, wrote such soulful lyrics. Love this song.
I just heard this song for the first time tonight coming home from work - the man is an awesome songwriter!
i love this song more than anything
One of the all-time greats. People will still be listening to Dylan in 3020!
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It’s Dylan , a guitar and a harmonica playing . It’s all you need .
1964/02/01 Bob Dylan 1964 Quest TV broadcast, CBC TV Studio - Toronto, Canada
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Yes, there truly is something genial about Bob Dylan's song-writing. He really tapped into something beautifully creative.
the words are timeless and true - but back then they sounded figurative, and now 2019 they sound like prophecies which become reality now.
This is my favorite Bob Dylan song, I think this is the best song he ever wrote..
"I met one man who was wounded in love.
I met another man who was wounded in hatred".
Beats me how a 21 year old comes up with that.
I believe he was talking to about the same man. Examining himself but who knows
He is such a great songwriter.
"I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'"
I'm constantly struck by the same... so young, so much wisdom in the lyrics.
I know. He’s a true poet.
Who's still watching this video and listening to his poetic music in 2020?
Makes me remember being a child with my Dad singing this to me 50 years ago. Happy memories based on such a tragic but immortal song. Thanks Bob
I saw Bob Dylan play this sing in Perth at the burswood dome and when he played this song with blues harp the whole crowd just erupted
5:19... the confidence and perfection in his voice as he nears the end is astounding
My favorite Dylan song
The fight for justice is always art. This song is literature: Nobel literature.
My favourite Dylan song!!
Song comes to my head when I'm cycling uphill or in the Rain. God bless Bob for this great song!
This is my favorite Dylan song.
It's amazing how Bob Dylan's music continues to resonate through time. Our doesn't matter what else is happening in the world, Dylan's lyrics just seem to have relevance. I would suggest that makes him a genius as far as I'm concerned. Brilliant stuff, Mr. Zimmerman, thank you
Many of his songs could have been written now or in Shakespeare's day and been equally relevant. "Hard Rain" is timeless and I hope immortal.
Been listening 50 Years or so. The Lyrics original the social milieu the truth poetry - Can always listen to Dylan. Central, Florida Born and raised here 67 Years now.
a man, a guitar, a harmonica and his thoughts……can't find that today
So true
You really can. They do not become famous though.
Amazing. Like a Biblical prophecy. Where did this come from ? How could this have entered and emerged from the head of a young man in his early twenties ? And yet this is one small sample of Dylan's many changes in direction, style, and content - always exploratory, always restless, always questing. Truly a genius
God.
I don't think he knows where it comes from either.
its call hallucinogenics 🤷
In a 60 Minutes interview, Dylan says he himself doesn't know where all these songs came from, just that they all came out of him, many very quickly and all at once. When asked if he could write music like this now, he pauses only a moment, and says No. It seems that the Dylan of the 60s is a foreign person even to Dylan now.
Beautiful....sad that today's youth don't have an artistic voice of this caliber.
Some have the "gift", some don't. Bob Dylan was blessed with a "mighty pen". How do you explain the spirit and soul? Each soul has a Gift, most don't find it, buy Bob Dylan has. I feel blessed to be alive, during the time of this 'Pulitzer Prize' winning "Great Musical-Humanitarian."
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Wonderful, genius of the young Dylan.
Dylan pierces through my soul!
We can all look back at the time and place when we were at our peak. But only in our wildest dreams could we ever go here.
Only Bob was ever this good and this touched by a higher power.
I have listened to this song so many times now, and this is how I sum it up in my own mind.
I've seen, listened too, and met some good but a lot of bad in life, and you ask me what im going do now?
Im going to face it all because
I've learnt that this is what it is to be alive, and that's what we have to do.
It's all we can do.
Odd to heart such prescient words from someone so young. I have lived many years and yes, a Hard Rain is Going to Fall.
The last verse is so hopeful! It, indeed, reminds me of my own "blue eyed son, darling young one", who was born an "old soul." He has always been aware, since childhood, of economic injustice, climate change, the challenges faced by various people, etc. I pray the young will lead us all out of this dark period in history, with God's guidance and an abundance of love. 🤗💖🙏
Hear, Hear 👏❤
So many beautiful and tragic images in one song. Simply amazing! I met a young child beside a dead pony. That single line sticks with me always. No words.
llegué a tu post en el exacto momento en que cantó ese verso!
Possibly the greatest song ever written.
It's stunning that a 21 year old came up with this, thought this, and wrote it so beautifully. The 5th verse especially gets me.
Who else is here after seeing the bio clip? Timothee is going to slay this part! A wonderful tribute.
Blown away by this song. Heard it just now for the first time with Patti Smith singing it at the Noble Prize Award Ceremony 2016 where they were awarding Bob for the Noble Prize - Literature and came here to hear him sing it himself. lovely.
I believe that these are the greatest lyrics ever written. They reach the absolute core of humanity (or absence of it).
Never fails to bring tears to my eyes regardless of how many times I listen to it... breathtaking lyrics from a uniquely gifted Robert Allen Zimmerman ..
only people who were there when Dyaln first came on the scene can understand how powerfully different he was from what were were used to. I was 13 years old, sitting in the back seat of a car when I first heard Dylan. He was singing "Ramona". I kept thinking"WoW!. And when the song was done I said to myself: This guy is going to be big! For once I was right. As for what he became...that's maybe another story.
He was already pretty big by the time of Another side of Bob Dylan though
@@0live0wire0 Exactly he'd already released 3 albums before that and was an influential cultural figure before anyone was thinking "wow this guy is going to big" after hearing '"To Ramona" in the back seat of a car
I understand your point.
@@DonMac I'm trying to say that I never heard of him before that day. He was NEW TO ME. You get it?