| I was born by the river, in a little tent
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| But, oh, just like the river’s been a running
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| I’ve been running ever since
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| It’s been a long, a long time coming
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| But I know a change is goin' come
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| Oh yes it will
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| It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die
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| Cause my mama never told me what goes on beyond the sky
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| It’s been a long, a long time coming
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| But I know a change is goin' come, oh yes it will
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| Say!
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| Like I said, I call to my brother
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| Say!
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| Brother, brother, would you help me, please
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| Oh they whine so, that crazy town
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| What goes on, was spendin' me
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| There was a time, thought I’d fall
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| I couldn’t learn, alone
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| But I want to thank you Jesus, thank you for
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| For carrying me home
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| It’s been a long, a long time coming
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| But I know a change is goin' come, oh yes it will
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| I want y’all to help me now
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| Hey!
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| Like I said, I call to my brother
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| Brother!
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| Brother, Brother, would you help me please!
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| Oh they whine so, that crazy town
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| What goes on, was spendin' me
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| There was a time, thought I’d fall
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| I couldn’t learn, alone
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| But I know that you’re out there baby, and one day I’ll be back home
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| It’s been a long, a long time coming
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| But I know, some kind of change
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| I said a change, I said a change
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| A change has got to get underway pretty soon girl
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| A long, long time ago, I wondered if that change was gon' come girl
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| But you know it seems like I tried so hard, to get back where I started from
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| I took about 20 years of very serious smoking
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| A few ups and downs
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| A few trips
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| Little space odyssey once in a while
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| To get back, to get back, to get back, to get back, to get back to bein' a kid
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| all over again
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| Because you know when you see a little boy or little girl runnin' down the
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| street
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| Runnin' to meet the popsicle truck and all the sudden and you get to turn
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| around and say «Wow I’ll be glad when this cat gets here, all these changes I’m
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| going through»
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| Back home again baby
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| Then comes the ages when you start drinkin' wine
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| Takin' care of business at the drive-in-movies, and one day your partner gives
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| you one of those funny lookin' cigarettes and says its time to for you,
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| for you to get mellow one more time
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| And after that first hit, the whole world brightens up just a little bit
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| But you know I come from back, way back in Indiana where like we’ve got
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| outhouses, and brothers wearin' pointed toe shoes and carryin 45s,
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| but you know there’s, there’s three kind of people in this world,
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| that’s why I know a change has gotta come
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| I say there’s white people, there’s black people and then there’s my people
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| Oh got to get on home now
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| Talkin' about a change
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| Has got to get underway, baby
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| I feel it comin', I feel it comin'
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| I feel that it’s coming pretty soon
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| Say! |