628 Bob Dylan (1941- ) “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall” 1963

“I’ll tell you how I come to write that [A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall]. Every line in that really is another song. Could be used as a whole song, every single line. I wrote that when I didin’t know how many other songs I could write. That was during October of last year and I remember sitting up all night with a bunch of people someplace. I wanted to get the most down that I knew about into one song, so I wrote that. It was during the Cuba trouble, that blockade, I guess is the word. I was a little worried, maybe that’s the word” (Jonathan Cott, ed., Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, 2006). The album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

Bob Dylan “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall”