G             Em                      C       G                       
Come gather 'round people             Wherever you roam     
      G            Em                   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.      
                Am           D        
If your time to you is worth savin'   
         D            D/c             D/b                   D/a   --- Hold the D form and C-B-A on the A string
Then you better start swimmin         Or you'll sink like a stone
        G     C          D    G
For the times they are a-changin'


     G           Em                     C                    G   
Come writers and critics              Who prophecize with your pen 
      G            Em                            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 
                       Am            D             
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'   
                 D/c                          D/b      D/a    
'Cause 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            Em                     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                D               D/c  
The battle outside ragin'           Will soon shake your windows
     D/b         D/a                                G     C       D   G
 And rattle your walls              For the times they are a-changin'


     G           Em                 C              D
Come mothers and fathers            Throughout the land      
  G            Em                            G          Em              
And don't criticize                 What you can't understand
      G            Em                   C               G           
Your sons and your daughters        Are beyond your command         
     G       Am           D                  D            D2/c   
Your old road is rapidly agin'      Please get out of the new one
           D/b         D/a                  G     C        D      G
If you can't lend your hand         For the times they are a-changin'


    G          Em                       C           G                 
The line it is drawn                The curse it is cast              
    G        Em                          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                      D         D2/c
The order is rapidly fadin'         And the first one now 
     D/b      D/a                           G     C          D    G
Will later be last                  For the times they are a-changin'