The Times They Are-a-Changin’
Richie Havens
(Composed by Bob Dylan)
[Intro]
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Come gather ’round people, wherever, you roam
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And admit, that the waters, around us have grown
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And expect it, that, soon, we’ll be drenched, to the bone
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If your time, to you, is worth savin’
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Then we’d better start swimmin’, or we sink like a stone
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’Cuz the timesthey are a-changin’
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Well, come, writers, come critics, you, who prophesize with your pens
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Keep your eyes wide, the chance won’t come again
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And don’t speak too soon ’Cuz the wheel’s still in spin
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And there’s no tellin’ who it is namin’
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For the loser now, may be later to win
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For the times, they are a-changin’
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Come mothers, come fathers, throughout, the land
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Don’t criticize what you don’t understand
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Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
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Your old road is rapidly agin’
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Please get outta’ the new one, if you can’t lend your hand
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For the times, they are a-changin’
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Come senators, come congressmen, please heed the call
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Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the halls
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For he that gets hurt, will be he who has stalled
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There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’
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Will soon shake our windows and rattle our walls
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’Cuz the timesthey are a-changin’
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The line, it is drawn, the course, it is cast
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The slow one now, will later, be fast
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As the present now, will later be past
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The order, is rapidly fading
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And the first one now will later be last
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For the times, they are a-changin’
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For the times, they are a-changin’
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