A F#m D A
Come gather ʼround people wherever you roam
A Bm D E
And admit that the waters around you have grown
A F#m D A
And accept it that soon youʼll be drenched to the bone
A Bm E
If your time to you is worth savinʼ
E E7 Amaj7 E
Then you better start swimminʼ or youʼll sink like a stone,
A D E A
For the times, they are a chang - inʼ
A F#m D A
Come writers and critics who prophecies with your pen
A F#m D E
And keep your eyes wide the chance wonʼt come again
A F#m D A
And donʼt speak too soon for the wheelʼs still in spin
A Bm E
And thereʼs no tellinʼ who that itʼs naminʼ
E E7 Amaj7 E
For the loser now will be later to win
A D E A
For the times they are a-changinʼ
A F#m D A
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
A F#m D E
And donʼt criticize what you donʼt understand
A F#m D A
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
A Bm E
Your old road is rapidly aginʼ
E E7 Amaj7 E
Please get out of the new one if you canʼt lend a hand
A D E A
For the times they are a-changinʼ
A F#m D A
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
A F#m D E
Donʼt stand in the doorway, donʼt block up the hall
A F#m D A
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
A Bm E
Thereʼs a battle outside and itʼs raginʼ
E E7 Amaj7 E
Itʼll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
A D E A
For the times they are a-changinʼ
A F#m D A
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
A F#m D E
The slow one now will later be fast
A F#m D A
As the present now will later be past
A Bm E
The order is rapidly fadinʼ
E E7 Amaj7 E
And the first one now will later be last
A D E A
For the times they are a-changinʼ
