GEmCG Come gather 'round people wherever you roam GAmCD And admit that the waters around you have grown GEmCG And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone GAmD If your time to you is worth savin' DD7D6D Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, GCDG For the times, they are a-changin'
GEmCG Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen GAmCD And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again GEmCG And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin GAmD And there's no tellin' who that it's namin' DD7D6D For the loser now will be later to win GCDG For the times they are a-changin'
GEmCG Come senators, congressmen please heed the call GAmCD Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall GEmCG For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled GAmD There's a battle outside and it's ragin' DD7D6D It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls GCDG For the times they are a-changin'
GEmCG Come mothers and fathers throughout the land GAmCD And don't criticize what you can't understand GEmCG Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command GAmD Your old road is rapidly agin' DD7D6D Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand GCDG For the times they are a-changin'
GEmCG The line it is drawn the curse it is cast GAmCD The slow one now will later be fast GEmCG As the present now will later be past GAmD The order is rapidly fadin' DD7D6D And the first one now will later be last GCDG For the times they are a-changin'