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Come gather ʼround people wherever you roam
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And admit that the waters around you have grown
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And accept it that soon youʼll be drenched to the bone
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If your time to you is worth savinʼ
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Then you better start swimminʼ or youʼll sink like a stone,
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For the times, they are a chang - inʼ
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Come writers and critics who prophecies with your pen
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And keep your eyes wide the chance wonʼt come again
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And donʼt speak too soon for the wheelʼs still in spin
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And thereʼs no tellinʼ who that itʼs naminʼ
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For the loser now will be later to win
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For the times they are a-changinʼ
F# D#m B F#
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
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And donʼt criticize what you donʼt understand
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Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
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Your old road is rapidly aginʼ
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Please get out of the new one if you canʼt lend a hand
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For the times they are a-changinʼ
F# D#m B F#
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
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Donʼt stand in the doorway, donʼt block up the hall
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For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
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Thereʼs a battle outside and itʼs raginʼ
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Itʼll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
F# B C# F#
For the times they are a-changinʼ
F# D#m B F#
The line it is drawn the curse 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 fadinʼ
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And the first one now will later be last
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For the times they are a-changinʼ
