Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters

Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'

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
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now

Will 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 stalled

There's a battle outside and its ragin'.
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your 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 again.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast

As the present now
Will later be past
The order is

Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.