Al Green - A Change Is Gonna Come lyrics

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(Feat. Booker T & The MG's) [Intro] You look good out there, baby I was born by the river in a little tent Oh, just like the river, I been running ever since It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh, yes it will, look it here It's been too hard living and I'm afraid to die Look it here Cuz I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long I wish I could come out there where you are baby A long time coming but I know Look it here A change is gonna come, oh yes it will Look it here Let me say one more thing I go to the movie and I go downtown But I don't like it here Somebody keep telling me oh boy, don't hang around It's been a long, a long If anybody know what I'm talking about Lemme see you wave your hands I know a chance gonna come, oh yes it will But I gotta take, say this here Then I go to my brother, yes sir And I tell 'em, I say brother help me please But he winds up knockin' me He knocks me back down, back down on my Oh there's been times that I fall Somebody say yeah Life could pass me on, no no I know I'm able, I'm able, I'm able I'm able to carry on It's been a long, good God almighty A long time coming but I know, yeah A change is gonna come, oh yes it will Look it here, one more time Then I go to my brother Somebody take your hands back and forth like this Everybody, everybody You sittin' in the first balcony too All over the auditorium tonight But he winds up knocking me down, my Back down on, back down on my knee oh I've been down but I thought I could last Oh, I know I'm able, I'm able, I'm able I know, I know, I know a change gonna come And oh yes it will Somebody say yeah You all back here, lemme hear ya say yeah Somebody say oh yeah Somebody say oh yeah Somebody say yeah Whoa, right on