Verse
C Am F C
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
C Dm F G
And admit that the waters around you have grown
C Am F C
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
C Dm G
If your time to you is worth savin'
G G7 G6 G
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
C F G C
For the times, they are a-changin'
[Verse 2]
C Am F C
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
C Dm F G
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
C Am F C
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
C Dm G
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
G G7 G6 G
For the loser now will be later to win
C F G C
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 3]
C Am F C
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
C Dm F G
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
C Am F C
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
C Dm G
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
G G7 G6 G
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
C F G C
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 4]
C Am F C
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
C Dm F G
And don't criticize what you can't understand
C Am F C
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
C Dm G
Your old road is rapidly agin'
G G7 G6 G
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand
C F G C
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 5]
C Am F C
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
C Dm F G
The slow one now will later be fast
C Am F C
As the present now will later be past
C Dm G
The order is rapidly fadin'
G G7 G6 G
And the first one now will later be last
C F G C
For the times they are a-changin'