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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 03:53 PM
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I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'


Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Title: A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall

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,
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:06 PM
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1. genious prophet
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:11 PM
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2. I know, I had this song on my ipod, and listening to it I felt
it extremely prophetic and moving.
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:21 PM
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3. Does this mean the Weather Underground will become active again?
maybe you had to be there...
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:27 PM
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4. they just had to go toooooo far didn't they?
worst i ever participated in was messing with some earth movers in the old growth forests. when people start planning on blowing things up, it comes to no good. ever.
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