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The Times They Are a-Changin’

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    Chords And Lyrics

    The Times Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan

    Verse 1

         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            D/C                 G/B      G/A
    Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
            G                      D  G
    For the times, they are a chang - in'

    Verse 2

         G             Em         C        G
    Come writers and critics who prophecies with your pen
          G            Am      C              D
    And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
          G            Em             C               G
    And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
            G       Am           D
    And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
     D      D/C     G/B          G/A
    For the loser now will be later to win
            G                      D  G
    For the times they are a-changin'

    Verse 3

         G             Em         C        G
    Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
          G            Am      C              D
    Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
          G            Em             C               G
    For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
            G       Am           D
    There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
      D         D/C                  G/B            G/A
    It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
            G                      D  G
    For the times they are a-changin'
    

    Verse 4

         G             Em         C        G
    Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
          G            Am      C              D
    And don't criticize what you can't understand
          G            Em             C               G
    Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
            G       Am           D
    Your old road is rapidly agin'
     D                   D/C            G/B            G/A
    Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand
            G                     D  G
    For the times they are a-changin'

    Verse 5

         G             Em         C        G
    The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
          G            Am      C              D
    The slow one now will later be fast
          G            Em             C     G
    As the present now will later be past
            G       Am           D
    The order is rapidly fadin'
     D               D/C        G/B     G/A
    And the first one now will later be last
            G                      D  G
    For the times they are a-changin'