Verse
F Dm A# F
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
F Gm A# C
And admit that the waters around you have grown
F Dm A# F
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
F Gm C
If your time to you is worth savin'
C C7 C6 C
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
F A# C F
For the times, they are a-changin'
[Verse 2]
F Dm A# F
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
F Gm A# C
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
F Dm A# F
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
F Gm C
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
C C7 C6 C
For the loser now will be later to win
F A# C F
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 3]
F Dm A# F
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
F Gm A# C
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
F Dm A# F
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
F Gm C
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
C C7 C6 C
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
F A# C F
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 4]
F Dm A# F
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
F Gm A# C
And don't criticize what you can't understand
F Dm A# F
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
F Gm C
Your old road is rapidly agin'
C C7 C6 C
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand
F A# C F
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 5]
F Dm A# F
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
F Gm A# C
The slow one now will later be fast
F Dm A# F
As the present now will later be past
F Gm C
The order is rapidly fadin'
C C7 C6 C
And the first one now will later be last
F A# C F
For the times they are a-changin'