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