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 prophesize 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 criticize

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'