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The Annotated Bob Dylan, Katrina Edition

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

(from A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan)

BushkatrinaOh, 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

Stranded_1_2I 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,

Katrina_1I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

Citation

“The Annotated Bob Dylan, Katrina Edition,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26185.