| Come gather 'round people wherever you may roam
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| Admit that the waters around you have grown
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| Admit that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
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| If your time to you is worth saving
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| Well, you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone
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| For the times they are a-changing
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| Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
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| Keep your eyes wide, the chance won’t come again
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| Don’t speak too soon, for the wheel’s still in spin
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| And there’s no telling who that it’s naming
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| For the loser now will be later to win
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| For the times they are a-changing
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| Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
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| Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block in the hall
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| For he who had lost is he who has all
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| There’s a storm outside and it’s raging
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| It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
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| For the times they are a-changing
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| It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
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| For the times they are a-changing
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| Come mothers and fathers, throughout the land
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| Don’t criticize what you can’t understand
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| Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
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| And your old road is rapidly aging
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| So get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand
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| For the times they are a-changing
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| Come gather 'round people wherever you may roam
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| Admit that the waters around you have grown
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| Admit that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
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| If your time to you is worth saving
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| Well, you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone
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| For the times they are a-changing
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| For the times they are a-changing |