G Em |
Come gather 'round people |
C G |
Wherever you roam |
G Am |
And admit that the waters |
C D |
Around you have grown |
G Em |
And accept it that soon |
C G |
You'll be drenched to the bone. |
G Am D |
If your time to you Is worth savin' |
G D7 |
Then you better start swimmin' |
C D |
Or you'll sink like a stone |
G C D G |
For the times they are a-changin'. |
G Em |
Come writers and critics |
C G |
Who prophesize with your pen |
G Am |
And keep your eyes wide |
C D |
The chance won't come again |
G Em |
And don't speak too soon |
C G |
For the wheel's still in spin |
G Am |
And there's no tellin' |
D |
Who that it's namin'. |
G D7 |
'Cause the loser now |
C D |
Will be later to win |
G C D G |
For the times they are a-changin'. |
G Em |
Come senators, congressmen |
C G |
Please heed the call |
G Am |
Don't stand in the doorway |
C D |
Don't block up the hall |
G Em |
For he that gets hurt |
C G |
Will be he who has stalled |
G Am D |
The battle outside ragin' |
G D7 |
Will soon shake your windows *) |
C D |
And rattle your walls |
G C D G |
For the times they are a-changin'. |
G Em |
Come mothers and fathers |
C G |
Throughout the land |
G Am |
And don't criticize |
C D |
What you can't understand |
G Em |
Your sons and your daughters |
C G |
Are beyond your command |
G Am D |
Your old road is rapidly agin'. |
G D7 |
Please get out of the new one |
C D |
If you can't lend your hand |
G C D G |
For the times they are a-changin'. |
G Em |
The line it is drawn |
C G |
The curse it is cast |
G Am |
The slow one now |
C D |
Will later be fast |
G Em |
As the present now |
C G |
Will later be past |
G Am D |
The order is rapidly fadin'. |
G D7 |
And the first one now |
C D |
Will later be last |
G C D G |
For the times they are a-changin'. |