{"id":999,"date":"2006-06-21T00:27:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T04:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=999"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:33:44","slug":"a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall-declassified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/999\/a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall-declassified\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall (declassified)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"A<\/a>
\nA Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall, declassified<\/strong>
\n2006
\n20 w by 24 in h
\nDigital Painting with photo collage elements by Juli Kearns,
\nCopyright \u00c2\u00a9 2006 Juli Kearns
\nBased on a photo from the Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project.<\/p>\n

Lightbox enlargement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A girl performs on the accordion at a talent show at the Hanford Theater in 1944. I don’t know why, but this image proved to be particularly moving, perhaps because of my having been trained musically as a child in Richland (and after), and my life-long association with music through my producer\/keyboardist husband. While working on it, I listening to Bob Dylan’s classic, “A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall”, because, though Dylan says the song is not about rain from atomic fallout, the lyrics are appropriate enough–as they are appropriate for all warfare–and spoke to a future horizon that was being projected by Hanford those few years before Nagasaki. Not that war before Fat Man and Little Boy was any less horrific.<\/p>\n

But Fat Man and Little Boy were undeniable game changers<\/span>.<\/h5>\n

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\n

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
\nOh, where have you been, my darling young one?
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve walked and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve crawled on six crooked highways
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard rain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a-gonna fall<\/p>\n

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
\nOh, what did you see, my darling young one?
\nI saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
\nI saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
\nI saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nI saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nI saw a white ladder all covered with water
\nI saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
\nI saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard rain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a-gonna fall<\/p>\n

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
\nAnd what did you hear, my darling young one?
\nI heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nHeard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
\nHeard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nHeard ten thousand whisperin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and nobody listenin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nHeard one person starve, I heard many people laughin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nHeard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
\nHeard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard rain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a-gonna fall<\/p>\n

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
\nWho did you meet, my darling young one?
\nI met a young child beside a dead pony
\nI met a white man who walked a black dog
\nI met a young woman whose body was burning
\nI met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
\nI met one man who was wounded in love
\nI met another man who was wounded with hatred
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard rain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a-gonna fall<\/p>\n

Oh, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
\nOh, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll you do now, my darling young one?
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a-goin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 back out \u00e2\u20ac\u2122fore the rain starts a-fallin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
\nWhere the people are many and their hands are all empty
\nWhere the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
\nWhere the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
\nWhere the executioner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face is always well hidden
\nWhere hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
\nWhere black is the color, where none is the number
\nAnd I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
\nAnd reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
\nThen I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nBut I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll know my song well before I start singin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122
\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard rain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a-gonna fall<\/p>\n

– Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[clear]<\/p>\n

And now a 1964 live performance of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall”.<\/p>\n

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The image upon which the painting is based:<\/p>\n

\"Talent<\/a>
\nDDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number
\n“N1D0024918”
\nAccession Number N1D0024918
\nDocument Number D-5428-NEG
\nAlternate Document Number D-5428-NEG
\nTitle Description GIRL PLAYING ACCORDIAN
\nNumber of Pages 1
\nKey Word(s)
\nAuthor(s)
\nCompany(s)
\nDocument Date 04-Dec-2001
\nPublic Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 <\/em><\/p>\n

Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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