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