LYRICS & MUSIC BY BOB DYLAN
| Introduction |
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Guitar - one |
| Bob Dylan |
1. |
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'. |
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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'. |
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2. |
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 it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'. |
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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 agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'. |
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3. |
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'. |
| Close |
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Harmonica/Guitar trill |
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ANNOTATION
Source/Precedents
Comments
The Critics
Notes
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ALTERNATIVE RECORDINGS
Bob Dylan
Other Artists
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| 4. |
??Stevie Wonder : Blowin' In The Wind, UPTIGHT
Track 5, May 1966.
Live Version on THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY
ALBUM Disc 2 Track 1 |
For extensive information on alternate versions see Olof
Björner's excellent ...
It
Ain’t Me, Babe
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RECORDING DETAILS
| Recorded: |
24 October 1963 |
| Release Date : |
13 January 1964 |
| Published : |
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| Studio: |
Columbia Studio A, New York, New York, U.S.A. |
| Master Number: |
CO-79681-7 |
| Take: |
1 |
| Producer: |
Tom Wilson |
| Engineer/s: |
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| Company: |
CBS |
| Record Number : |
Columbia Mono CL 21055
Columbia Stereo KCS 8905 |
| CD Number: |
CBS 467175-2 |
| Record: |
Side A Track 1 (13 January 1964) |
| CD: |
Track 1 (Date) |
| Time: |
3.15 minutes |
Musicians:
| Bob Dylan |
Vocals/Guitar/Harmonica |
All Recording Data usually from Record /Compact Disc Cover,
and
Clinton Heylin, Dylan : Behind Closed Doors - The Recording Sessions
1960-1994 Penguin Books 1996
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