G | Em | C | G | |
Come | gather ’round | people wher | ever you | roam |
G | Am | C | D | |
And ad | mit that the | waters a | round you have | grown |
G | Em | C | G | |
And ac | cept it that | soon you’ll be | drenched to the | bone |
G | Am | D | |
If your | time to | you is worth | savin’ |
D | D7 | Gmaj7 | D | |
Then you | better start | swimmin’ or you’ll | sink like a | stone, |
G | C | D | G | |
For the | times, they are a | chang | - | in’ |
Come writers and critics who prophecize with your pen |
And keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again |
And don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin |
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’ |
For the loser now will be later to win |
For the times they are a-changin’ |
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land |
And don’t criticize what you don’t understand |
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command |
Your old road is rapidly agin’ |
Please get out on a new one if you can’t lend a hand |
For the times they are a-changin’ |
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call |
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall |
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled |
There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’ |
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls |
For the times they are a-changin’ |
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast |
The slow one now will later be fast |
As the present now will later be past |
The order is rapidly fadin’ |
And the first one now will later be last |
For the times they are a-changin’ |