Unit V: 1968-1969 Document #5.

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Bob Dylan song lyrics The Times They Are a-Changin’, 1964

Come gather 'round people Come mothers and fathers

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

Source: The Times They Are A-Changin’, Bob Dylan, Columbia Records, January, 1964

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