Verse
B G#m E B
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
B C#m E F#
And admit that the waters around you have grown
B G#m E B
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
B C#m F#
If your time to you is worth savin'
F# F#7 F#6 F#
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
B E F# B
For the times, they are a-changin'
[Verse 2]
B G#m E B
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
B C#m E F#
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
B G#m E B
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
B C#m F#
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
F# F#7 F#6 F#
For the loser now will be later to win
B E F# B
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 3]
B G#m E B
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
B C#m E F#
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
B G#m E B
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
B C#m F#
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
F# F#7 F#6 F#
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
B E F# B
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 4]
B G#m E B
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
B C#m E F#
And don't criticize what you can't understand
B G#m E B
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
B C#m F#
Your old road is rapidly agin'
F# F#7 F#6 F#
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand
B E F# B
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 5]
B G#m E B
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
B C#m E F#
The slow one now will later be fast
B G#m E B
As the present now will later be past
B C#m F#
The order is rapidly fadin'
F# F#7 F#6 F#
And the first one now will later be last
B E F# B
For the times they are a-changin'