The Times They Are A - Changin

G Em

Come gather 'round people

C G

Wherever you roam

G Am

And admit that the waters

C D

Around you have grown

G Em

And accept it that soon

C G

You'll be drenched to the bone.

G Am

If your time to you

D

Is worth savin'

G D

Then you better start swimmin'

C D

Or you'll sink like a stone

G C D G

For the times they are a-changin'.

G Em

Come writers and critics

C G

Who prophesize with your pen

G Am

And keep your eyes wide

C D

The chance won't come again

G Em

And don't speak too soon

C G

For the wheel's still in spin

G Am

And there's no tellin' who

D

That it's namin'.

G D

For the loser now

C D

Will be later to win

G C D G

For the times they are a-changin'.

G Em

Come senators, congressmen

C G

Please heed the call

G Am

Don't stand in the doorway

C D

Don't block up the hall

G Em

For he that gets hurt

C G

Will be he who has stalled

G Am

There's a battle outside

D

And it is ragin'.

G D

It'll soon shake your windows

C D

And rattle your walls

G C D G

For the times they are a-changin'.

G Em

Come mothers and fathers

C G

Throughout the land

G Am

And don't criticize

C D

What you can't understand

G Em

Your sons and your daughters

C G

Are beyond your command

G Am

Your old road is

D

Rapidly agin'.

G D

Please get out of the new one

C D

If you can't lend your hand

G C D G

For the times they are a-changin'.

G Em

The line it is drawn

C G

The curse it is cast

G Am

The slow one now

C D

Will later be fast

G Em

As the present now

C G

Will later be past

G Am

The order is

D

Rapidly fadin'.

G D

And the first one now

C D

Will later be last

G C D G

For the times they are a-changin'.