[Verse 1]

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Come gather 'round people wherever you roam

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And admit that the waters around you have grown

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And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone

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If your time to you is worth savin'

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Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,

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For the times, they are a-changin'

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[Verse 2]

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Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen

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And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again

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

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And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'

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For the loser now will be later to win

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For the times they are a-changin'

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[Verse 3]

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Come senators, congressmen please heed the call

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Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall

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For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

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There's a battle outside and it's ragin'

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It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

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For the times they are a-changin'

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[Verse 4]

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Come mothers and fathers throughout the land

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And 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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Your old road is rapidly agin'

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Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand

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For the times they are a-changin'

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[Verse 5]

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The line it is drawn the curse it is cast

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The slow one now will later be fast

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As the present now will later be past

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The order is rapidly fadin'

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And the first one now will later be last

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For the times they are a-changin'

[Interlude]

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