A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Hoy nos paseamos por varias versiones del tema A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall del gran Bob Dylan.
Wikipedia dice que: "Fue incluida en el álbum The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, editado el 27 de mayo de 1963.
La canción se publicó poco antes de la Crisis de los misiles de Cuba, por lo que en su época se dijo que la letra tenía que ver con dicha crisis y los tiempos preocupados de aquel entonces. De todas maneras, el significado que esconden los versos ha permanecido relevante a lo largo del tiempo al contener una visión más amplia en sus descripciones de la injusticia, el sufrimiento y la guerra.
Sin embargo, consultado Bob Dylan sobre si esta canción hacía referencia a una lluvia atómica, él respondió "It's not atomic rain. It's just a hard rain"."

Además de la versión de su autor pueden escuchar una de Joan Baez y otra de  Edie Brickell.
La canción trascendió idiomas y tenemos un video de la cantante griega Nana Mouskouri quien la canta en francés (Le ciel est noir).
También una versión en español interpretada por el grupo español Amaral que en este caso se llama: Llegará la tormenta.
Que las disfruten!

Versión: Bob Dylan (EEUU)

Versión: Joan Baez (EEUU)

Versión: Edie Brickell (EEUU)

Versión: Nana Mouskouri (Grecia) - En francés: "Le ciel est noir"



Versión: Amaral - En español: "Llegará la tormenta"

Letra:


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 takers 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, it 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, 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 and 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 deepths 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
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 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 songs well before I start singin'
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.