[Verse 1]
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'
D D7 Gmaj7 D
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,
G C D G
For the times, they are a chang - in'
[Verse 2]
G Em C G
Come writers and critics who prophecies with your pen
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'
D D7 Gmaj7 D
For the loser now will be later to win
G C D G
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 3]
G Em C G
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
G Am C D
And don't criticize what you don't understand
G Em C G
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
G Am D
Your old road is rapidly agin'
D D7 Gmaj7 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'
[Verse 3]
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 that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
G Am D
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
D D7 Gmaj7 D
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
G C D G
For the times they are a-changin'
[Verse 4]
G Em C G
The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
G Am C D
The slow one now will later be fast
G Em C G
As the present now will later be past
G Am D
The order is rapidly fadin'
D D7 Gmaj7 D
And the first one now will later be last
G C D G
For the times they are a-changin'
