The Times They Are a

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', G D C D Then you'd better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, G C D G For the times, they are a changin’. G Em C C Come, writers and critics who prophesy with your pens, 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' G C D For the loser now will be later to win, G C D G For the times, they are a changin’. 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 who gets hurt will be he who has stalled. G Am D There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’. G D It'll soon shake your windows G C D It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls G C D G For the times, they are a-changin'. G Em C G Come, mothers, fathers throughout the land, G Am C G And don’t criticize what you don’t understand. G Em G Am Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. G Am G Your old road is rapidly agin’. G D C D Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand, G C D G For the times, they are a-changin'. G Em C G The line it is drawn; the curse, it is cast. G Am C G The slow one now will later be fast, G Em G Am As the present now will later be past. G Am G The order is rapidly fadin’ G D C D And the first one now will later be last, G C D G For the times, they are a-changin'.