All right, let's do this thing, boys.
Come gather round people
wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
around you have grown
And ac cept it that soon
you'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimming
or you'll sink like a stone
For the times,
they are a -changin'
Come writers and critics
who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide,
the chance won't come again
Don't speak too soon,
for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin'
who that is namin'
Cause we're losing now,
we'll be later to win
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 stoned
The battle outside a -rangin'
We'll soon shake your windows
and rattle the walls
For the times they are a -changin'
Come mothers and fathers
throughout the land
And don't criticize what you
can't understand.
Your sons and your daughters
are beyond your command.
Your old road is rapidly aging.
Please get out of the new one
if you can't lend your hand.
For the times, they are a -chan gin'.
The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
The slower now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now
will later be the last
For the times, they are a -changin'
For the times, they are a -changin'
For the times, they are a -changin'
For times, they are a -changin'