Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come lyrics

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A Change is Gonna Come 3: 15 Trk 22

(Sam Cooke)

Sam Cooke

Pop Chart #31 Jan. 30 1965 (Top Pop Singles) RCA Single 8486

Producer: Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore at the RCA Studio in California on December 21, 1963.

Arranger: René Hall

Musicians: The Great Earl Palmer - drums

Chuck Badie, & Israel Baker - violin, Norman Bartold

Harold Battiste & Arnold Belnick - guitar, Louis Blackburn - trombone

John Ewing - trombone, Harry Hyams - viola, René Hall - guitar

William Hinshaw - french horn, William Kurasch - trumpet

Irving Lipschultz - violin, Leonard Malarsky - violin,

Alexander Neiman - viola, Jack Pepper - violin

Emil Radocchia - marimba, tympani, percussion, Emmet Sargeant cello, Ralph, Schaeffer - violin, Sidney Sharp - violin

Darrel Terwilliger - violin, David Wells - trombone, Clif White

Tibor Zelig - violin

Album: Keep Movin' On - Sam Cooke Abkco # 18771-3563-2 (2001)

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

I was born by the river

In a little tent

Oh and just like the river

I been runnin' ever since

It's been a long, a long time comin'

But I know-oh-whoa

A change gon' come

Oh, yes it will

It's been too hard livin'

But I'm afraid to die

'Cause I don't know what's up there

Beyond the sky

It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know-oh-whoa

A change gon' come

Oh, yes it will

I go to the movie

And I go downtown

Somebody keep tellin me

'Don't hang around'

It's been a long, a long time coming

But I know-oh-whoa

A change gon' come

Oh, yes it will

Then I go-oh-whoa, to my brother

An I say, 'Brother help me please'

But he winds up knockin' me

Back on down my knees

Ooh, there been time that I thought

I couldn't last for long

But now I think I'm able to carry on

It's been a long, a long time comin'

But I know-oh-whoa

A change is gon' come

Oh, yes it will.

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Thanks to Anita for these lyrics