Hard rains gonna fall joan baez biography
Hard rains gonna fall joan baez biography
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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
song by Bob Dylan
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by American musician and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan in the summer of and recorded later that year for his second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan ().
Its lyrical structure is based on the question-and-answer refrain pattern of the traditional British ballad "Lord Randall", published by Francis Child.
The song is characterized by symbolist imagery in the style of Arthur Rimbaud, communicating suffering, pollution, and warfare.
Dylan has said that all of the lyrics were taken from the initial lines of songs that "he thought he would never have time to write."[1]Nat Hentoff quoted Dylan as saying that he immediately wrote the song in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis,[2] although in his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan attributed his inspiration to the feeling he got when reading microfiche newspapers in the New York Public Library: "After a while y