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  • Though his earliest songs are derivative, within a span of 24 months Mr. Dylan grew to write "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "The Times They Are A-Changin '," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and several other songs that would become American classics.

    Greenwich Village Revisited Jim Fusilli 2010

  • Wearing a spiffy Panama hat, the dapper Mr. Dylan runs through a tight two-hour set that features his always-bewildering mix of lesser-known tracks sprinkled with landmarks like "All Along the Watchtower," "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Like a Rolling Stone."

    Dylan's Beijing Bob Ron Gluckman 2011

  • "Blowin 'in the Wind," "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Masters of War" gave the protest movement some of its greatest anthems.

    John W. Whitehead: No Shelter from the Storm: Bob Dylan's Apocalypse 2008

  • Lyrics from "Blowin 'in the Wind," "Masters of War" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" jarred me out of my narrow, selfish world and moved me to examine the issues of war, politics and civil rights.

    MAIL CALL: THE 'CONSCIENCE OF A GENERATION' SPEAK 2007

  • A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan) and we who are awakening need to get into the spirit of protest that was alive in the 60s and beat the airwaves to try and get through to the people who are still asleep and in denial of the harsh reality around them.

    Sing a Song of Freedom 2007

  • Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna FallIt's better that everyone has their own interactive medium and chaos reigns, than the alternative of Big Media or traditional School alone.

    conversation and expertise in a flat but wrinkled world Bill Kerr 2007

  • The other familiar song, and the real highlight of the album for me, was Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."

    The Kennedys, songs of the OPEN ROAD (Appleseed Recordings, 2006) smg58 2007

  • Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna FallIt's better that everyone has their own interactive medium and chaos reigns, than the alternative of Big Media or traditional School alone.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Bill Kerr 2007

  • Bob Dylan wrote 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 'in the summer of 1962, in a matter of minutes, on Wavy Gravy's typewriter, after reading William Blake.

    Liaisons Dangereuses Leonard, John 2001

  • U2 Lyrics - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna FallOh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?

    A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 1983

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