Come gather 'round people<br>
Wherever you roam<br>
And admit that the waters<br>
Around you have grown<br>
And accept it that soon<br>
You'll be drenched to the bone.<br>
If your time to you<br>
Is worth savin'<br>
Then you better start swimmin'<br>
Or you'll sink like a stone<br>
For the times they are a-changin'.<br>
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Come writers and critics<br>
Who prophesize with your pen<br>
And keep your eyes wide<br>
The chance won't come again<br>
And don't speak too soon<br>
For the wheel's still in spin<br>
And there's no tellin' who<br>
That it's namin'.<br>
For the loser now<br>
Will be later to win<br>
For the times they are a-changin'.<br>
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Come senators, congressmen<br>
Please heed the call<br>
Don't stand in the doorway<br>
Don't block up the hall<br>
For he that gets hurt<br>
Will be he who has stalled<br>
There's a battle outside<br>
And it is ragin'.<br>
It'll soon shake your windows<br>
And rattle your walls<br>
For the times they are a-changin'.<br>
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Come mothers and fathers<br>
Throughout the land<br>
And don't criticize<br>
What you can't understand<br>
Your sons and your daughters<br>
Are beyond your command<br>
Your old road is<br>
Rapidly agin'.<br>
Please get out of the new one<br>
If you can't lend your hand<br>
For the times they are a-changin'.<br>
<br>
The line it is drawn<br>
The curse it is cast<br>
The slow one now<br>
Will later be fast<br>
As the present now<br>
Will later be past<br>
The order is<br>
Rapidly fadin'.<br>
And the first one now<br>
Will later be last<br>
For the times they are a-changin<br>
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