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 saving
Then you better start swimming or you will sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics who prophecise with your pen
And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon 'cause the wheel's still in spin
And there's no telling who that it's naming
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 you stand in the doorways, don't you block off the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it's raging
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Yes, they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
Oh, don't you criticize what you cannot understand
Your sons and your daughters live beyond your command
When your old road is rapidly aging
Please, get out of the new one if you cannot lend our hand
For the times they are a-changin'

Oh, the line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
And don't you know the slow one 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 last
For the times they are a-changin'
Yes, they are a-changin'

Come gather 'round, gather 'round people wherever you roam