THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'

Bob Dylan


LYRICS:
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone...  If your time to you is worth savin'
So you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone...  For the times, they are a-chang - in'

Come writers and critics who prophecy 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-chang-in'

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 of the 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 die 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'
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CHORDS:

            G                        Em              C               G
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
           G                      Am         C                        D
And admit that the waters around you have grown
           G                    Em                  C                         G
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
             G       Am                     D
If your time to you is worth savin'
                 D                 Cadd9                   G/B              D/A
So you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
             G                               C       D  G
For the times, they are a-cha---ang - in'

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[From Songfacts.com »]

This became an anthem for frustrated youth. It summed up the anti-establishment feelings of many young people who would later be known as hippies. Many of the lyrics are based on the Civil Rights movement in the US.
In the liner notes of this album Biograph, Dylan wrote: "I wanted to write a big song, some kind of theme song, with short, concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. This is definitely a song with a purpose. I knew exactly what I wanted to say and who I wanted to say it to."

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